A REST API (short for Representational State Transfer Application Programming Interface) is a way two separate pieces of ...

This crash course on how to build a RESTful API with Spring Boot teaches everything you need to know to immediately develop enterprise-grade microservices in Java. In just 90 minutes you'll learn how ...

REST is one of the most influential ideas in distributed architecture. Here's why it matters and how to understand RESTful services in theory and practice. REST, or Representational State Transfer, is ...

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Security orchestration methods, and of course SDN, are driving the need for programmable interfaces in security products. The Cisco ASA Firewall added a REST API back in December with the 9.3(2) code ...

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 ...

Microsoft’s platform-based approach to cloud development has allowed it to offer managed versions of many familiar elements of the tech stack, especially within its data platform. As well as its own ...