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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 ...

Application programming interfaces allow for the linking of databases and the sharing of data across apps. With APIs, two applications can communicate with each other without understanding how the ...

Why? Because it will take WordPress into new directions entirely. WordPress has unveiled its latest iteration, version 4.4. It's called Clifford, after the jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown, and comes ...

Everyone appreciates good documentation -- when they need it, anyway -- but creating and maintaining that documentation sure feels like a chore sometimes. I've been researching Web API documentation ...

Chatbots are the new mobile application. In this article, Nick demonstrates how you can integrate a bot right into your Universal Windows Platform app via the Microsoft Bot Framework Direct Line API.

Could 2026 be the year of the beautiful back end? We explore the range of options for server-side JavaScript development, ...