A REST API (short for Representational State Transfer Application Programming Interface) is a way two separate pieces of software can talk over the internet using standard rules. At its core, it lets ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Building custom APIs for every mobile, Web, and IoT project drives up costs and risk; there’s a better way The engineering team at DreamFactory designed and built some of the very first applications ...

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, ...

This crash course on how to build a RESTful API with Spring Boot teaches everything you need to know to immediately develop enterprise-grade microservices in Java. In just 90 minutes you'll learn how ...

Flash back to just over a decade ago when the fieldbus wars raged between vendors, inflicting casualties on early adopters and leaving automation engineers unsure of where to make their technology ...