There were two obvious choices: a RESTful API, and a Web Service API. We both had experience with both kinds of Web APIs, and neither of us had a strong preference.

Web developers looking for a performance boost in ASP.NET 7 Web API projects can pick some low-hanging fruit by using caching. Caching is used to store frequently used data or information in local ...

Take advantage of API key authentication to control the access of applications and services to your Web APIs in ASP.NET Core. There are several ways to secure your APIs in ASP.NET Core 7. You can ...

Master the tenets of RESTful web service design If you want to learn how to develop RESTful web services and, at the same time, confirm you comply with best practices and avoid RESTful antipatterns, ...

The idea behind the OpenAPI specification is to provide the same kind of support for RESTful Web Services that WSDL provided for SOAP-based Web Services: automatic, machine-readable documentation for ...

Randy Bias defended his position that OpenStack should support APIs to control Amazon Web Services at today's CloudBeat conference. The lively exchange shows the issues should be around for a while.

The SOAP API, which never moved out of beta status, carried a 1,000-queries-per-day cap. But the AJAX API, also in beta, has other limitations, such as returning a maximum of eight results per query.

eBay's Web services API allows programs to search through on-line auctions, but only if the programmer doesn't get too frustrated first. During the past few months, we have looked at the Web services ...