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 ...

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There is no sanctioning body or open source linter that can verify if a RESTful API conforms and complies with all applicable REST API naming conventions and best practices. However, REST API ...

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 ...

I'm frankly surprised by the amount of people coding backends and frontends that communicate through REST. RPC is a nearly transparent mechanism that makes communication between two processes nearly ...

Your trading bot crashes at 3 AM because the forex feed went silent. Real-time currency data really shouldn't mean spe ...