Two decades ago, the IT industry saw tremendous opportunities with the dot-com boom. Similar to the dot-com bubble, the IT industry is transitioning through another period of innovation disrupting all lines of business with recent technology trends such as the cloud, the Internet of Things (IOT), single-page applications, and Open Data Protocol. What these trends are, what benefits it offers, and how RESTFul APIs play a role in each of these emerging areas will be covered in this chapter. We will be covering the following topics in this chapter; let's begin our exploration:

• Cloud services
• Internet of Things
• Single-page applications
• Social media
• Open Data Protocol