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, ...

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, ...

Google this week began offering an alpha version of Google APIs Client Library for JavaScript, which provides access to HTTP-based APIs on the Web, as well as to many of Google’s public APIs. The ...

Take advantage of these best practices to ensure that changes to your API don’t break compatibility with current clients. Representational State Transfer, commonly known as REST, is an architectural ...