There is no sanctioning body or open source linter that can verify if a RESTful API conforms and complies with all applicable REST API naming conventions and best practices. However, REST API ...

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 ...

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APIs are often viewed as a panacea of opportunity—a must-do for innovation and competition. But this is only half of the story. While in most cases there are legitimate opportunities to be realized, ...

Governance can be a cringe-worthy term for those of us who were creating APIs back in the simple object access protocol (SOAP) era. Back then, the development model was a slow, top-down approach where ...

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The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. This is a contributed piece for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Alex Walling in his ...