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 ...

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 SOAP-based web services form the backbone of most legacy web service implementations, RESTful APIs have become the de facto standard for cloud-native microservices development. In this ...

Take advantage of these best practices to ensure that changes to your API don’t break compatibility with current clients. Representational State Transfer, commonly known as REST, is an architectural ...

Tech projects for IT leaders: How to use RESTful APIs with Node-RED Your email has been sent While you might be familiar with APIs, we'll get into how they work and how they can be used in this tech ...

Building an API is a surprisingly attainable goal, even if it might seem tricky to total novices. To get you started, here are a few steps to follow which could lead to great things. API basics Before ...

Peter Rexer at Box has been designing and building APIs for nearly a decade. At Box, he was asked to revamp the platform’s API, which was originally built in 2005. What he and his team built has ...