Building custom APIs for every mobile, Web, and IoT project drives up costs and risk; there’s a better way The engineering team at DreamFactory designed and built some of the very first applications ...

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 software can talk over the internet using standard rules. At its core, it lets ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Cory Benfield discusses the evolution of ...

For the past decade, I’ve worked at the intersection of cloud architecture, API design and machine learning—building systems where APIs interpret data, score it and sometimes act on it. Over the last ...

Edge’s built-in developer tools have added a Postman-like REST API explorer. Now you can test applications without leaving your browser Much of the code we write these days depends on the web. After ...

MuleSoft, a provider of integration platforms, released developer tooling for RAML (RESTful API Modeling Language), an expressive language for specifying APIs. By offering the tooling as a free ...