When you upload your vacation photos to Instagram, there’s a built-in option to simultaneously post to Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook. This modern digital experience is powered by APIs (application ...

Think of a REST API like a waiter in a restaurant. You (an app) tell the waiter what you want (your request), and the waiter goes to the kitchen (the server) to get it for you. REST is just a set of ...

A core tenant of the RESTful API development doctrine is that a Uniform Resource Locator, as the name implies, should uniquely identify a resource on the server. Sadly, that simple concept is often ...

One of the key strengths of REST is its simplicity, but that simplicity sometimes raises objections from developers who question whether such a simple approach to application integration can deal with ...

Learn how the open standard for querying data is different from REST and Swagger, and how you can use it to build more flexible and responsive APIs. When most software developers think of web APIs, we ...

These free and free-tier services and open source utilities will have your APIs up and running in no time, and will keep them running smoothly. The rise of RESTful APIs has been met by a rise in tools ...