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 ...

For decades now, industrial networks in their various fieldbus and Ethernet forms have handled all the communication between the controllers, devices and any of the various nodes that exist on the ...

There has been some subterranean discussion in the content management standards arena about what is the best way to support the interoperability of content services with applications. Should vendors ...

GraphQL is a new query language for APIs. But what exactly makes it different and is it a better option? Let's find out. Dubbed as the “query language for your API,” GraphQL has been hailed the ...

Many efforts are centered around creating largescale networks of “smart things” found in the physical world (e.g.,wireless sensor and actuator networks, embedded devices, tagged objects). Rather than ...

A resource-oriented approach to Web services Representational State Transfer (REST) is an architectural style for creating, maintaining, retrieving, and deleting resources. REST’s information-driven, ...