4.3 - API Sockets & Communications (application programming interface - send & receive data remotely)

-This allows computers to talk to computer - adilas accounts talking to other adilas accounts, or adilas accounts talking to other outside parties, or vice versa

-API is almost like computer to computer telepathy, you can’t see anything of the data per say - just the communications

-We use standard formats like JSON or XML to pass the data, standard way of communicating

-You can have data in a database, crunch it down, send it across the wire, and it can be reinflated on the other side - stuff that is automated on demand or request or create your own custom application that feeds or draws from the main application - you can create secondary apps that can play that way