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 ...

While SOAP-based web services form the backbone of most legacy web service implementations, RESTful APIs have become the de facto standard for cloud-native microservices development. In this ...

AI, or artificial intelligence, is technology that attempts to simulate human cognitive function. AI has made its way into the software development space in a number of ways. Visit the AI article list ...

APIs seem to be everywhere these days. Every popular online service has one. APIs allow developers to interact with online services without actually having to point and click their way through a UI.

Consuming services is something every application needs to do. In this article, Nick demonstrates how to document a REST service using Swagger in order to make it easy to consume from a Universal ...

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Mobile developer William J. Francis demonstrates how easy it is to consume a RESTful service from your Android device. RESTful services are well suited for providing content to small footprint devices ...

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, ...