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I was particularly interested in accepting Packt Publishing‘s offer to provide a book review of Masoud Kalali‘s and Bhakti Mehta‘s Developing RESTful Services with JAX-RS 2.0, WebSockets, and JSON ...

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Frontend development often hits a practical wall early: the backend API does not exist yet, is unreachable in local environments, or is shared between multiple teams and cannot be safely modified ...

It’s easy to get sloppy in your APIs, so here’s a refresher on how to be correctly RESTful in your client scripts Recently, I was trying to write a little client script for Apache Solr. It was just ...

Most teams aren’t building REST. They’re shipping remote procedure calls through HTTP and calling it “clean architecture.” The name is wrong, and the design mistakes that follow are expensive. I used ...

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 ...

APIs seem to be everywhere these days. Every popular online service has one. APIs allow developers to interact with online services without actually having to point and click their way through a UI.

If you're building a RESTful Web service, you can provide both guidance and control around the JSON messages your service works with by replacing documentation with JSON Schemas. Say what you want ...

Effective deployment solutions are essential for maximizing the capabilities of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and platforms. This study proposes a technique for enhancing the management, monitoring ...