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.

This crash course on how to build a RESTful API with Spring Boot teaches everything you need to know to immediately develop enterprise-grade microservices in Java. In just 90 minutes you'll learn how ...

Flash back to just over a decade ago when the fieldbus wars raged between vendors, inflicting casualties on early adopters and leaving automation engineers unsure of where to make their technology ...

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. REST, or Representational State Transfer, is ...

Everyone appreciates good documentation -- when they need it, anyway -- but creating and maintaining that documentation sure feels like a chore sometimes. I've been researching Web API documentation ...

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

In writing about Workflow (then) and Shortcuts (now) for a living, at some point I realized that if I wanted to build more complex shortcuts to either deal with web APIs or store data in iCloud Drive, ...