All in all, your first RESTful API in Python is about piecing together clear endpoints, matching them with the right HTTP ...

It’s easy to get sloppy in your APIs, so here’s a refresher on how to be correctly RESTful in your client scripts Recently, I was trying to write a little client script for Apache Solr. It was just ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Andres Almiray, a serial open-source ...

Recognizing that RESTful APIs are becoming the de facto standard for mobile app development, Parasoft announced that its API Testing tool has been upgraded to address that trend. "The demand for ...

I don’t expect that many developers today fully appreciate the quiet glory that is REST and JSON. But then, most developers today have not been around the software business as long as I have. It’s ...

Flash back to just over a decade ago when the fieldbus wars raged between vendors, inflicting casualties on early adopters and leaving automation engineers unsure of where to make their technology ...

The widespread use of ASCII encoding formats like JSON and rest may be killing server performance. A wide variety of emerging binary formats offer significantly improved performance for processing ...