An important REST API naming convention best practice is to make URIs short, but not so short that they are illegible and unreadable. Intuitive and readable RESTful URIs are key. Don't abbreviate ...

Contrary to conventional wisdom, data is not necessarily the oil of the new digital economy, at least raw data isn’t. REST APIs aim to bridge the gap between raw information and structured data. In ...

It's rare for a RESTful API or web service to fully comply with REST's six architectural constraints. However, most solution architects strive to respect the HTTP protocol's methods. They use resource ...