Despite REST's position as the de facto standard in web services development, it's not without some shortcomings. Data exchange formats can be bloated, and it lacks standards for API documentation and ...

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 ...

gRPC is a high-performance binary protocol for remote procedure calls on virtually any platform. Here's a hands-on intro to using gRPC with Node. gRPC is a binary protocol for remote procedure calls, ...

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 ...