A REST API (short for Representational State Transfer Application Programming Interface) is a way two separate pieces of software can talk over the internet using standard rules. At its core, it lets ...

RESTful clients can update the score by invocating the same URL through a PUT invocation while also passing query parameters. Again, the program will return a JSON-based representation of the score ...

Think of a REST API like a waiter in a restaurant. You (an app) tell the waiter what you want (your request), and the waiter goes to the kitchen (the server) to get it for you. REST is just a set of ...

TheServerSide has published a number of articles on the tenets of effective RESTful web service design, along with examples of how to actually create a cloud-native application using Spring Boot and ...

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Visual Studio 2013 came with a new version of Web API. The Web API 2.1 update includes a host of new features, including support for Binary JSON. Learn how to leverage BSON by building a Web API 2.1 ...