Discover what APIs are, how they work, and their significance in modern tech. Explore the world of APIs including RESTful APIs, SOAP APIs, GraphQL APIs and more.

Take advantage of these best practices to ensure that changes to your API don’t break compatibility with current clients.

REST was introduced as a lightweight solution to address the burdens of SOAP. However, it turns out that a RESTful API needs a schema to define the contract and make it more discoverable.

Developers use application programming interfaces to hide complexity, organize code, design reusable components, and connect different systems, applications, or services.

While you might be familiar with APIs, we'll get into how they work and how they can be used in this tech project, using low-code programming to check the weather with your home lab.

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 ...

Merchants will need to shift to the new Merchant API as the long-standing Shopping Content API heads for shutdown in 2026.

An outage has halted automated access to congressional data, raising questions about whether the breakdown stems from a glitch or something more serious. The change came to light on Friday.

RESTful parameters promote an ease of use and resource access, but an improper setup can plague your search features and open the door for improper queries and paths that are difficult to fix.