Nov 11, 2025 - Jeremy Snyder - A common analogy for APIs is that they are LEGO blocks, or more specifically, APIs are the little studs and slots that allow you to attach LEGO pieces to each other and ...

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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 ...

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Building web services and documenting RESTful endpoints is no easy task, but testing RESTful APIs has always been a particularly sore point with Spring Boot and Java. Sure, you can test a GET ...

Take advantage of these best practices to ensure that changes to your API don’t break compatibility with current clients. Representational State Transfer, commonly known as REST, is an architectural ...