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 ...

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.

The standard package communication format is JSON packets sent through RESTful services. There are other ways to send data such as SOAP, OData and XML, but JSON is the default standard. A JSON API can ...

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 ...

REST APIs are the backbone of modern applications, separating data and presentation layers and allowing systems to scale in size and feature sophistication. However, as data moves across boundaries, ...

JSON is the leading data interchange format for web applications and more. Here’s what you need to know about JavaScript Object Notation. JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a format used to ...