Many Web API designers claim their are RESTful, but their APIs have little in common with REST. What can be done to make a web service API truly RESTful?

Understanding idempotence, and how it applies to the most commonly used HTTP methods, is an important part of effective RESTful API design.

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 ...

RESTful APIs are flexible, sensible and provide for a great deal of loose coupling, but if an application architect is looking for an effective way to describe the RESTful API in a manner similar to ...

Axioma, a provider of investment risk and portfolio management solutions, has launched the Axioma Portfolio Optimizer Python API (application program interface).

Implementing the RESTful WCF Service When working with WCF, you first need to create a service contract and then define the service operations or operation contracts in it.

The API, first announced at F8 this year, is Python-based and runs in JupyterLab, an open source notebook interface In light of Facebook’s many past privacy woes, the new Researcher API comes ...