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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 ...

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 ...

While SOAP-based web services form the backbone of most legacy web service implementations, RESTful APIs have become the de facto standard for cloud-native microservices development. In this ...

Twitter is preparing to launch several impressive new features, including a new streaming API that will give desktop client applications real-time access to the user's message timeline. The new ...

Leostream, a provider of secure high-performance remote access solutions, is offering the Leostream RESTful API, supporting Managed Solutions Providers (MSPs) and enterprise organizations that are ...

The PaLM API allows you to tap Google’s PaLM 2 large language model directly from your application. Let’s start by writing some code to generate a blog post, including the HTML code. Pathways Language ...

On January 31, Google released the URL Inspection API, enabling you to programmatically check the status of URLs in bulk (based on properties you have access to in GSC). Although you could always ...