Peter Rexer at Box has been designing and building APIs for nearly a decade. At Box, he was asked to revamp the platform’s API, which was originally built in 2005. What he and his team built has ...

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It’s no secret that I rather enjoy connecting things to the Internet for fun and profit. One of the tricks I’ve learned along the way is to spin up simple APIs that can be used when prototyping a ...

Zend, Microsoft, and IBM lead the open source cloud portability effort, which seeks to eliminate vendor lock-in by helping developers create apps that can access all major cloud platforms Nirvana in ...

Designing APIs often leads to a compromise between producers and/or consumers. Consumers of APIs would like the interface to be as close to their requirements as possible; they want to avoid possible ...

Obtaining a geocoding api key marks the starting point for any location-based feature development. The process should be simple, but varies dramatically ...

In many ways, generative AI has made finding information on the Internet a lot easier. Instead of spending time scrolling through Google search results, people can quickly get the answers they’re ...

Databases have always been a complex part of the equation for developers requiring a delicate balance to manage inside the application, but Fauna wants to make adding a database a simple API call, and ...