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 ...

Application programming interfaces allow for the linking of databases and the sharing of data across apps. With APIs, two applications can communicate with each other without understanding how the ...

Service-oriented architectures are at the heart of modern application development. By building applications out of a mix of services, we can take advantage of the current generation of platforms to ...

“API” is an acronym for application programming interface, a set of protocols that allows two software programs to communicate. APIs are used to power web applications and integrate different software ...

APIs are no longer just things that work in the background; they are now the most important part of modern business. APIs connect almost everything in the digital world, from real-time financial data ...

For the past decade, I’ve worked at the intersection of cloud architecture, API design and machine learning—building systems where APIs interpret data, score it and sometimes act on it. Over the last ...

Factories are making a fundamental shift away from monolithic architectures towards microservices. Individual services can be developed, updated and scaled independently of each other. This can ...