The Hypertext Transport Protocol requires all HTTP methods to declare whether they are idempotent or not. With an idempotent HTTP method, multiple invocations always leave the data on the server in ...

APIs seem to be everywhere these days. Every popular online service has one. APIs allow developers to interact with online services without actually having to point and click their way through a UI.

The key difference between the terms REST versus RESTful is that REST refers to a philosophy about the architecture and design of web services, while the term RESTful refers to any API that properly ...

“API” is an acronym for application programming interface, a set of protocols that allows two software programs to communicate. APIs are used to power web applications and integrate different software ...

While OpenAI began this shift back in March 2025 with its Responses API, Google’s entry signals its own efforts to advance ...

According to the report, average API load times improved by 53% year over year , yet 42% of API traffic remains unencrypted (HTTP) and 47% of APIs process requests without authentication. It is a ...

Salt Security, the leader in API and API-driven AI security, today unveiled its "12 Months of Innovation" recap, a ...

Last week, Google DeepMind made the Interactions API available as a public beta. The new API represents a fundamental change ...

Pledge Software (the creator of Pactman: today announced automated developer onboarding for its Nonprofit Check Plus API, a move aimed at reducing friction for platforms that must verify nonprofit ...