Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Representational state transfer, popularly known as REST, is all the rage these days. First ...

The widespread use of ASCII encoding formats like JSON and rest may be killing server performance. A wide variety of emerging binary formats offer significantly improved performance for processing ...

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 ...

Oracle is banking on REST and JSON to modernize Java EE for microservices and the cloud. It may seem like ages since REST stole thunder from SOAP as a mechanism for providing web services ...

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.

Finding a decent sample API for testing can really slow things down when you’re trying to build something. You know, waiting ...

These free and free-tier services and open-source utilities will have your API up and running in no time The rise of RESTful APIs has been met by a rise in tools for creating, testing, and managing ...

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 ...