Even the biggest companies in a given space need to adapt to survive. Apple with the iPod. Google with AdWords. You get the idea. Another tech big fish, WordPress, has been keeping up with a recent ...

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 ...

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 ...

REST is one of the most influential ideas in distributed architecture. Here's why it matters and how to understand RESTful services in theory and practice. REST, or Representational State Transfer, is ...

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 ...

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.