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 ...

There are plenty of discussions and comparisons of API architectures using REST versus SOAP. But which is a better approach when building cloud native services and applications? Cloud-based API data ...

Yahoo has announced the availability of the Yahoo Mail Web Service. This new offering will allow developers to use API protocols, via SOAP or JSON-RPC, to connect to the Yahoo mail platform. This ...

Every day more businesses migrate towards the web. They offer on-line support for their clients. This support translated in web pages must be linked with the companies’ data servers. The solution for ...

gRPC is a high-performance binary protocol for remote procedure calls on virtually any platform. Here's a hands-on intro to using gRPC with Node. gRPC is a binary protocol for remote procedure calls, ...

What does this API security really mean inside? API became a standard for the modern web during the post-iPhone epoch — to be more concrete, the post-AppStore epoch. Two main drivers — the boom of ...

In a past life I was the CTO of Samsung Contact — a startup that sold a Linux-based email-and-collaboration-cum-unified-communications server; an alternative to Microsoft Exchange. It was based on ...

Most aggregators scan for changes once an hour, but in some situations we want to know immediately when a channel has changed. For example, we include RSS Boxes on many of our sites. When an editor ...

If you want something other than puns... as an old timer... I still think REST is a cute idea- it can provide a quite intuitive, nearly self-documenting API, which is relatively easy to interop with ...