In a world where REST APIs drive countless applications, going beyond the basics can make a real difference in your API's performance and usability. Whether you’re building an API from scratch or refining an existing one, these advanced REST API techniques can help your API respond faster, become more intuitive, and handle high demands more … Continue reading 4 Advanced REST API Concepts for Improved Performance and Usability
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REST vs GraphQL
When building APIs, developers commonly choose between two approaches: GraphQL and REST. Both offer ways to communicate between a client and server but differ in handling data, requests, and responses. REST is a widely adopted standard based on resource-oriented architecture and predefined endpoints. At the same time, GraphQL is a more flexible query language that … Continue reading REST vs GraphQL
Simplest Way to Learn REST APIs Ever!
REST API explanations often make them seem more complicated than necessary. They're actually pretty simple. While they can handle highly complex tasks, introducing them is not so bad. In this post, my goal is to provide the easiest and most straightforward explanation of REST APIs ever! Here's what you'll accomplish: Learn the foundation of what … Continue reading Simplest Way to Learn REST APIs Ever!
Postman and Swagger, a Complimentary Rest API Pairing
Postman and Swagger are two powerful REST API tools that serve distinct yet complementary roles in API documentation and testing. Postman excels at facilitating hands-on API testing, enabling technical writers to send requests, observe responses, and generate practical examples that enhance user understanding. In contrast, Swagger focuses on creating detailed API specifications using the OpenAPI … Continue reading Postman and Swagger, a Complimentary Rest API Pairing
Technical Writer’s Guide to REST APIs
REST APIs are widely used in web and mobile app development for their simplicity and flexibility in enabling communication between different systems. Documenting REST APIs is an essential practice for developers and technical writers to ensure that users can understand and integrate with the API efficiently. For some reason, however, this tends to come across … Continue reading Technical Writer’s Guide to REST APIs
How APIs Drive AI Development
I was curious about how APIs allow developers to programmatically collect data for AI applications, and I thought you might be, too. I'll explore this more in this post. APIs connect client-side software with the backend services, databases, for example. This allows developers to interact with and retrieve data from various platforms or services programmatically. … Continue reading How APIs Drive AI Development
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