Take advantage of these best practices to ensure that changes to your API don’t break compatibility with current clients. Representational State Transfer, commonly known as REST, is an ...

REST and RESTful APIs. A RESTful API should conform as much as possible to the six REST constraints. It certainly should not violate them. A problem that developers and architects often encounter with ...

Discover what APIs are, how they work, and their significance in modern tech. Explore the world of APIs including RESTful APIs, SOAP APIs, GraphQL APIs and more.

But my script experience reminded me that REST’s rules (okay, guidelines) are there for your protection. They make it really easy to write to your API, and they make it behave in a predictable ...

Don't build your RESTful API as if you are a contestant on the Wheel of Fortune, spinning for a chance to select a letter but pay $500 for a vowel. An important REST API naming convention best ...

SmartBear releases API exploration tool that supports REST and event-driven specifications, giving developers instant visibility into API limitations ...

Developers use DreamFactory by downloading the project's free source code and connecting to data sources, whereupon a palette of reusable REST APIs are generated for working with that data source or ...

RESTful APIs can be designed with many different endpoints that return different types of data. However, accessing multiple endpoints with a REST API requires multiple calls, which can slow down ...

Let's start with a simple example. We'll need an existing REST API to work with. Browsing around on the Internet, I come across a REST API called Cat Facts. This API returns various facts about our ...

In our API strategy talks with clients, the goal is too often “implement REST APIs”. But the real business goals are to optimise experiences, operations, and collaboration with customers ...