Digital businesses are growing across the map, and things we used to always carry around, like hard cash, now seem obsolete to some. That’s the beauty of humanity—our ability to grow through our ...

A Web API is an online “application programming interface” that allows developers to interact with external services. These are the commands that the developer of the service has determined will be ...

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Take advantage of these best practices to ensure that changes to your API don’t break compatibility with current clients. Representational State Transfer, commonly known as REST, is an architectural ...

In the original proposal for the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: A generic tool could perhaps be made to allow any database which uses a commercial DBMS to be displayed as a hypertext view. We ...

Think back to the 1990s. It was a disruptive time for traditional business models, beginning with the rush for a Web presence, followed by the shift from bricks and mortar to so-called “clicks and ...

The rise of programmable networks has changed the role of the network engineer, and accepting those changes is key to career advancement. Network engineers need to become software fluent and embrace ...

Google and Oracle’s argument before the Supreme Court last October left opponents of API copyrights extremely nervous. For the previous decade, Google had been arguing in lower courts that it didn’t ...

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A team of first-year computer science students earned second place at CodeLinc 10, a national 24-hour hackathon hosted by ...