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 ...

I was particularly interested in accepting Packt Publishing‘s offer to provide a book review of Masoud Kalali‘s and Bhakti Mehta‘s Developing RESTful Services with JAX-RS 2.0, WebSockets, and JSON ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. REST (Representation State Transfer) is very popular these days. The architectural style is easy ...

Your trading bot crashes at 3 AM because the forex feed went silent. Real-time currency data really shouldn't mean spe ...

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 ...

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.

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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 ...

While mostly known for its use in Linux-based development, the versatile curl tool for transferring data over HTTPS can be a nifty timesaver when using Visual Studio Code on Windows. Specifically, ...