What is a RESTful API? A RESTful API is an architectural style for an application programming interface that uses HTTP requests to access and use data. That data can be used to GET, PUT, POST and ...

The most important thing to get right is semantics. That word gets used very loosely, but here I mean the naming of API endpoints and querystring parameters, the layout of passed data structures, the ...

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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 ...

GraphQL -- in case you haven't heard of it -- is a rapidly rising query and manipulation language for APIs. It's designed to make APIs fast, flexible and developer-friendly, and it moves the ...

Microsoft’s declarative REST and GraphQL API design tool supports MySQL and Postgres as well as Azure databases and works anywhere you can run a Docker container. Microsoft Azure is now so big it’s ...