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 ...

A REST API (short for Representational State Transfer Application Programming Interface) is a way two separate pieces of ...

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It’s easy to get sloppy in your APIs, so here’s a refresher on how to be correctly RESTful in your client scripts Recently, I was trying to write a little client script for Apache Solr. It was just ...

Currently, I think that RESTful APIs are extremely interesting but seldom mentioned in association with simple web applications such as the ones that I will work on, and, therefore, going for a ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. REST (Representation State Transfer) is very popular these days. The architectural style is easy ...

The 1.0 version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, issued way back in 1996, only defined three HTTP verbs: GET, POST and HEAD. The most commonly used HTTP method is GET. The purpose of the GET method ...

An introduction to the lean REST framework that turns a number of popular Java libraries into a more streamlined alternative to Spring. Dropwizard is a REST-oriented framework that draws together ...

Your trading bot crashes at 3 AM because the forex feed went silent. Real-time currency data really shouldn't mean spe ...