When we ask the SpaceX REST API for the land pad data, the size of the JSON array returned is 8.18 KB. Remember, the REST API has to return all the fields, all the time. The efficiency GraphQL ...

The term REST was first proposed by Roy Fielding, one of the principal authors of the HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) specification, in a 2000 doctoral dissertation. It is a style of software ...

This makes REST an ideal candidate to build an “universal” API for smart things. As the “client-pull” interaction model of HTTP does not fully match the needs of event-driven applications, we further ...

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 ...

ASP.NET Web API incorporates nice support for HTTP PATCH requests using the Delta class, which was included as part of the OData additions. We will cover how to use the Delta class in a later post.