Open source projects are emerging to further software development practices based on RESTful APIs, which are becoming more instrumental in providing app back-end services and other functionality. To ...

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 ...

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 ...

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. Real-time data streaming and messaging solutions company Push Technology has enriched its Diffusion ...

There are plenty of discussions and comparisons of API architectures using REST versus SOAP. But which is a better approach when building cloud native services and applications? Cloud-based API data ...

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by David Brown in his position ...

Bernadette Nixon, CEO at Algolia, is an entrepreneurial & driven CEO with a strong track record of growing and scaling global businesses. An API request-response exchange process enables software ...

REST is one of the most influential ideas in distributed architecture. Here's why it matters and how to understand RESTful services in theory and practice. REST, or Representational State Transfer, is ...