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?

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.

Keep your API surface aligned with domain concepts, not database details. Domain-Focused Procedures: Design your API around business logic rather than CRUD operations at the database level.

MuleSoft has just announced the release of three RAML-based tools for designing, evaluating and testing RESTful APIs.

REST API URL naming conventions The following list represents the standard set of REST API naming conventions and best practices that software architects should follow when they develop and design ...

The basics of API design Core to all these types of failures where the API doesn’t work as planned is a need for design that considers multiple aspects of a good API plan.

In this 10-question RESTful web services quiz, we will test you on how to develop REST-based APIs, how RESTful web services leverage the HTTP protocol and how to structure URLs and URIs in order to ...

Kong Inc., a cloud connectivity company, is releasing a new open source tool called Insomnia Designer, offering a collaborative API design editor. Building on Insomnia Core, which Kong acquired in ...