Application programming interfaces (APIs) expand ecosystems and market presence for major services such as Google Maps, Lyft and Facebook, and they have created new market channels and products for ...

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 ...

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You've been asked to transform a monolithic application into one with a microservices-oriented architecture. How would you go about making the transformation? An API gateway for microservices is often ...

The HTTP verb named PATCH can be used for partial updates, i.e., when you would like to update just a few fields of a resource. While you could update a resource “partially” using HTTP PUT, by sending ...