A RESTful API should conform as much as possible to the six REST constraints. It certainly should not violate them. A problem that developers and architects often encounter with RESTful APIs is that ...

Changes to a RESTful API are inevitable. However, unless you adhere to the best practices and ensure that the API is backward compatible, your changes can break the API’s compatibility with ...

REST stands for Representational State Transfer, is more open in how it is coded, and is the more common type of API. You’ll often see them described as RESTful APIs too.

Don't build your RESTful API as if you are a contestant on the Wheel of Fortune, spinning for a chance to select a letter but pay $500 for a vowel. An important REST API naming convention best ...

Solr has a HTTP/JSON-based API. However, it isn’t exactly a REST API because it doesn’t really follow any of the rules for a well-defined REST interface. I whine about this sometimes.

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.

Developers use DreamFactory by downloading the project's free source code and connecting to data sources, whereupon a palette of reusable REST APIs are generated for working with that data source or ...

RESTful APIs (which are web services that implement REST) are widely seen as the lean saviour for loosely coupled systems. The birth of the API schema.