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 ...

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 ...

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Open source projects are emerging to further software development practices based on RESTful APIs, which are becoming more instrumental in providing app back-end services and other functionality. To ...

Clearly, REST (Representational State Transfer) is winning the web service protocol debate. What was once a grass-roots movement has proliferated inside the enterprise and out. As of January 2010, ...

Microsoft has announced the public preview of the Exchange Online Admin API, a modern REST API that gives IT teams scalable, service-account–friendly control over mailbox and recipient management. The ...

For developers who want to expose their Web applications to other computers and Internet services, API platform vendor Apigee is offering a free online tool to help create APIs using the increasingly ...

Saxo Bank, the multi-asset trading and investment specialist, is one of the first financial institutions to give access to its trading infrastructure through the bank's new REST based API called open ...

Clearly, REST (Representational State Transfer) is winning the web service protocol debate. What was once a grass-roots movement has proliferated inside the enterprise and out. As of January 2010, ...