Peter Rexer at Box has been designing and building APIs for nearly a decade. At Box, he was asked to revamp the platform’s API, which was originally built in 2005. What he and his team built has ...
Zend, Microsoft, and IBM lead the open source cloud portability effort, which seeks to eliminate vendor lock-in by helping developers create apps that can access all major cloud platforms Nirvana in ...
It’s no secret that I rather enjoy connecting things to the Internet for fun and profit. One of the tricks I’ve learned along the way is to spin up simple APIs that can be used when prototyping a ...
Designing APIs often leads to a compromise between producers and/or consumers. Consumers of APIs would like the interface to be as close to their requirements as possible; they want to avoid possible ...
The cost of API integration can vary wildly, from a couple of thousand pounds for basic setups to well over £100,000 annually for complex, custom solutions. Factors like how complicated the data is, ...
Yes, sometimes you need sophisticated libraries that handle HTTP requests asynchronously, but in other situations that can be overkill. An old Internet Explorer API may have a solution. I've written ...