The key difference between the terms REST versus RESTful is that REST refers to a philosophy about the architecture and design of web services, while the term RESTful refers to any API that properly ...

In this article, I wanted to give a brief, but comprehensive overview of the Ballerina programming language’s support for writing backend APIs. We covered how we can write REST APIs in depth.

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 ...

As APIs continue to proliferate, so do their types: REST, SOAP, GraphQL, Kafka-based APIs, Publish/Subscribe Pattern-Based APIs, Remote Procedure Call protocols and Webhooks, among them.

It’s easy to get sloppy in your APIs, so here’s a refresher on how to be correctly RESTful in your client scripts ...

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.