REST is one of the most influential ideas in distributed architecture. Here's why it matters and how to understand RESTful services in theory and practice. REST, or Representational State Transfer, is ...

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While SOAP and REST based web and integration services are ideal for organizations that are flush with racks of servers and blessed with an army talented software developers, a good enterprise ...

Remember the heyday of Web services, when we were always just one specification away from perfect interoperability? Ultimately, that towering stack of protocols collapsed under its own weight. SOAP ...

How do you access a RESTful web service? That depends on what you're trying to accomplish. If you just want to test connectivity, a terminal-based utility like curl is a great RESTful web service ...

ASP.NET Core allows you to create Web Services based on gRPC ... which raises two questions: "What is gRPC?" and "Does it ever make sense to use it?" Here are Peter's answers. If you're working with ...