Randy Bias defended his position that OpenStack should support APIs to control Amazon Web Services at today's CloudBeat conference. The lively exchange shows the issues should be around for a while.

Many Web API designers claim their are RESTful, but their APIs have little in common with REST. What can be done to make a web service API truly RESTful?

PayPal yesterday introduced PayPal Web Services, a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) that the company hopes developers will use to build code that will integrate the PayPal platform ...

One issue with having so many RESTful web services APIs is that their designers simply don't have a solid grasp of RESTful principles. In this RESTful APIs tutorial, we will look at the philosophy ...

Saying they can no longer afford to maintain the service, Google will shut down its hugely popular Google Translate API. This API made a whole generation of creative mashups and mobile ...

The OpenAPI (Swagger) technology suite includes a file that describes your Web API service. Peter thinks it's the slickest tool available to ensure that clients can access your services.

Google has quietly sunsetted its SOAP Search API in favor of a newer AJAX API, a move irking developers who relied on the pioneering Web services interface.

The API featured in the Summer 2006 release, called V1: Agile API, uses a secure Web services interface to allow developers to integrate V1 with third-party offerings such as requirements ...

This time, however, Amazon Web Services Inc. itself allegedly allows hackers to get access to user data through its application programming interfaces.