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A REST API (short for Representational State Transfer Application Programming Interface) is a way two separate pieces of software can talk over the internet using standard rules. At its core, it lets ...

The widespread use of ASCII encoding formats like JSON and rest may be killing server performance. A wide variety of emerging binary formats offer significantly improved performance for processing ...

ASP.NET: Configuring WCF for REST with JSON If you want to extend your ASP.NET application to include RESTful calls that return JSON results to JavaScript code in an AJAX page, here's how to manage ...

I don’t expect that many developers today fully appreciate the quiet glory that is REST and JSON. But then, most developers today have not been around the software business as long as I have. It’s ...

I was particularly interested in accepting Packt Publishing‘s offer to provide a book review of Masoud Kalali‘s and Bhakti Mehta‘s Developing RESTful Services with JAX-RS 2.0, WebSockets, and JSON ...

Think of a REST API like a waiter in a restaurant. You (an app) tell the waiter what you want (your request), and the waiter goes to the kitchen (the server) to get it for you. REST is just a set of ...

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.