It’s no secret that I rather enjoy connecting things to the Internet for fun and profit. One of the tricks I’ve learned along the way is to spin up simple APIs that can be used when prototyping a ...

An API is like a magic box. We send data in a specific format. We then get data back in a specific format. This magical box is simply a script kept on a server. It acts as a gatekeeper — we tell the ...

The OpenAPI specification, and the Swagger suite of tools built around it, make it incredibly easy for Python developers to create, document and manually test the RESTful APIs they create. Regardless ...

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 ...

Find out what makes Python a versatile powerhouse for modern software development—from data science to machine learning, systems automation, web and API development, and more. It may seem odd to ...

A superset of Python that compiles to C, Cython combines the ease of Python with the speed of native code. Here's a quick guide to making the most of Cython in your Python programs. Python has a ...