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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 ...

These days, REST APIs are available to integrate your application or website with thousands of platforms — Web 2.0 properties such as Twitter, Facebook, and Foursquare, as well as old-school companies ...

Definition: Representational State Transfer (REST) is an architectural style of large-scale networked software that takes advantage of the technologies and protocols of the World Wide Web. REST ...

How do you access a RESTful web service? That depends on what you're trying to accomplish. If you just want to test connectivity, a terminal-based utility like curl is a great RESTful web service ...

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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 ...

There is no sanctioning body or open source linter that can verify if a RESTful API conforms and complies with all applicable REST API naming conventions and best practices. However, REST API ...