The key difference between the terms REST versus RESTful is that REST refers to a philosophy about the architecture and design of web services, while the term RESTful refers to any API that properly ...

An application programming interface (API) is software that acts as an intermediary between two programs, helping them ...

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 ...

APIs might not be top-of-mind in the C Suite, but maybe they should be. Increasingly, developers are becoming the decision makers about which vendors they want to work with based on the quality of ...

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by David Brown in his position ...

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 ...

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.

Apollo GraphQL, the graph-based API orchestration leader, is expanding GraphQL as the essential orchestration layer for AI agents and modern applications, introducing enhanced AI tooling with Apollo ...