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OpenAPI Spec: Documentation and Beyond

OpenAPI Spec: Documentation and Beyond

OpenAPI has become the industry standard for defining an API, yet it is often treated as a documentation tool only. Here at RestCase, we are using the OpenAPI specification for supporting and drive many parts of your API lifecycle development because we believe that REST is mostly about a contract »
TOP 7 REST API Security Threats

TOP 7 REST API Security Threats

Internet security is a topic which has been discussed increasingly quite often by technology blogs and forums and with valid reason: the numerous high profile security breaches have grown up significantly in recent years. Security is of great importance, especially in the world of REST APIs. API security is the »
Creating a Release Pipeline for Deploying Node App to Azure

Creating a Release Pipeline for Deploying Node App to Azure

So you've decided that you want to deploy a NodeJS application on Azure Web App, but all of the official (and well documented) guides use GitHub/Bitbucket/FTP it seems like no one uses Azure DevOps (previously VSTS), or is it? Here is a small overview of Azure »
REST APIs: From Idea to Release

REST APIs: From Idea to Release

We often think of API definition as beginning with the description file, most of us are using swagger or OpenApi. The challenge with this approach is that API producers often get into the weeds on resource names and methods before actually determining what the API capabilities need to be. When »
Introduction to REST API Security

Introduction to REST API Security

REST API? REST is an acronym for Representational State Transfer. This is a software architectural style that allows for many protocols and underlying characteristics the government of client and server behavior. Application Programming Interface (API) is a set of clearly defined methods of communication between various software components. A good »
Benefits For REST APIs with HTTP/2

Benefits For REST APIs with HTTP/2

HTTP/1.x vs HTTP/2 First, let's see what are some of the high-level differences: * HTTP/2 is binary, instead of textual Binary protocols are more efficient to parse, more compact “on the wire”, and most importantly, they are much less error-prone, compared to textual protocols like »
Guy Levin on REST API, WebHooks, RestCase, HTTP2 | | 0 COMMENTS
The World of REST APIs

The World of REST APIs

A new breed of web API has emerged, delivering a vision of a lightweight, low-cost approach to connect devices and allowing applications to exchange data efficiently. First let's check the history for APIs, then the usages today and see how are REST APIs are different and think about »