A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. Cory Benfield discusses the evolution of Swift from an app language to a critical tool for secure, high-scale ...

A REST API (short for Representational State Transfer Application Programming Interface) is a way two separate pieces of ...

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What does an API look like? Sometimes, says Brian Pagano, it looks like this: /users. Or this: /products. Brian Pagano is a software architect at Apigee, an outfit that does nothing but help companies ...

June 8, 2001— Java just keeps growing in scope and functionality. Time and again, the participants in the Java Community Process (JCP) find new APIs to construct and deliver. In fact, recognition of ...

The Java platform provides a top-to-bottom, end-to-end solution for a Web services architecture. From the client end to the server end, from rich clients at the top of the heap to the smallest clients ...

Back in 2016, I asked Microsoft about the status of OData -- the RESTful API protocol it developed back in 2007 -- because it seemed its initial buzz had tapered off dramatically. I was assured by the ...