A core tenant of the RESTful API development doctrine is that a Uniform Resource Locator, as the name implies, should uniquely identify a resource on the server. Sadly, that simple concept is often ...

Despite REST's position as the de facto standard in web services development, it's not without some shortcomings. Data exchange formats can be bloated, and it lacks standards for API documentation and ...

I'm frankly surprised by the amount of people coding backends and frontends that communicate through REST. RPC is a nearly transparent mechanism that makes communication between two processes nearly ...

Refit is an open-source library for .NET, .NET Core, and Xamarin that makes consuming REST APIs simpler and easier by enabling you to define the API endpoints as C# interfaces, thereby eliminating the ...

Service-oriented architectures are at the heart of modern application development. By building applications out of a mix of services, we can take advantage of the current generation of platforms to ...

Back in 2016, I asked Microsoft about the status of OData -- the RESTful API protocol it developed back in 2007 -- because it seemed its initial buzz had tapered off dramatically. I was assured by the ...