The iMessage API platform introduces group messaging, native reactions, HMAC-SHA256 webhook signing, and a fully ...

Despite REST's position as the de facto standard in web services development, it's not without some shortcomings. Data exchange formats can be bloated, and it lacks standards for API documentation and ...

Back in 2016, I asked Microsoft about the status of OData -- the RESTful API protocol it developed back in 2007 -- because it seemed its initial buzz had tapered off dramatically. I was assured by the ...

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 ...

For decades now, industrial networks in their various fieldbus and Ethernet forms have handled all the communication between the controllers, devices and any of the various nodes that exist on the ...

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. A new product will establish the graph-based industry standard for secure, orchestrated access to APIs ...

“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 ...