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.

APIs often provide development teams with the support needed to deal with many microservices-specific problems. For instance, they can act as a mechanism that decouples the business logic from the UI, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Google documented its Web Search Service API, which returns Google Search results as JSON. Access requires a Google Cloud ...

Thanks to his appearances at numerous national and international conferences, as well as more than 90 specialist books and ...