Many Web API designers claim their are RESTful, but their APIs have little in common with REST. What can be done to make a web service API truly RESTful?

RESTful APIs can be designed with many different endpoints that return different types of data. However, accessing multiple endpoints with a REST API requires multiple calls, which can slow down ...

REST API URL naming conventions The following list represents the standard set of REST API naming conventions and best practices that software architects should follow when they develop and design ...

REST stands for Representational State Transfer, is more open in how it is coded, and is the more common type of API. You’ll often see them described as RESTful APIs too.

Take advantage of these best practices to ensure that changes to your API don’t break compatibility with current clients.

For a long time, REST was the de facto way to design APIs. Then in 2015, Facebook open-sourced GraphQL and marketed it as a hot new alternative to REST.

If you’re exposing a public API, supporting multiple languages, or need long-term backward compatibility: REST is stable, battle-tested, and universally supported.

This RESTful API quiz for developers will see how well you know RESTful web services and the history behind the architectural style.

A report published today by Wallarm finds that of the 639 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) pertaining to application programming interfaces APIs continue to be one of the weakest links in ...