Despite REST's position as the de facto standard in web services development, it's not without some shortcomings. Data exchange formats can be bloated, and it lacks standards for API documentation and ...

It’s easy to get sloppy in your APIs, so here’s a refresher on how to be correctly RESTful in your client scripts Recently, I was trying to write a little client script for Apache Solr. It was just ...

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 ...

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While SOAP-based web services form the backbone of most legacy web service implementations, RESTful APIs have become the de facto standard for cloud-native microservices development. In this ...

APIs seem to be everywhere these days. Every popular online service has one. APIs allow developers to interact with online services without actually having to point and click their way through a UI.

JSON-LD extends JSON to include linking information. Here's how it could make JSON a top-tier player in hypermedia and the semantic web. JSON-LD looks to unite the promise of self-describing ...