Building custom APIs for every mobile, Web, and IoT project drives up costs and risk; there’s a better way The engineering team at DreamFactory designed and built some of the very first applications ...

Why: "If you just need basic and direct (yet secured) access to tables for CRUD operations, DAB automatically generates those endpoints for you. " Find out more about Live!360, taking place Nov. 17-22 ...

Microsoft’s platform-based approach to cloud development has allowed it to offer managed versions of many familiar elements of the tech stack, especially within its data platform. As well as its own ...

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 ...

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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 ...

A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from Stripe, shares his experience in building a testing system based on ...

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 ...