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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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AI, or artificial intelligence, is technology that attempts to simulate human cognitive function. AI has made its way into the software development space in a number of ways. Visit the AI article list ...

While you were getting your coffee, Java application development changed–again. In a world driven by rapid change and innovation, it’s ironic that APIs are making a comeback. Like the coding ...

If you want something other than puns... as an old timer... I still think REST is a cute idea- it can provide a quite intuitive, nearly self-documenting API, which is relatively easy to interop with ...