The simplicity of JSON has led to it gaining great support in various languages. If you ever considered XML to be simple, then you can think of JSON as being simpler. Have a look at the JSON site (http://www.json.org/), which has a list of programming languages that support JSON.
Many established businesses with an online solution publish their product capabilities as services. Companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Amazon all have web services that make use of JSON as the data-interchange format. It's no surprise that the new breed of architectural solutions such as microservices have chosen JSON as the preferred communication format. Similar to many of Google's products, Gmail has APIs published for accessing its features such as providing access to a user's inbox. The Amazon platform too provides REST APIs, which can be used...