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.

Many discussions of Web APIs get hung up on the finer points of REST APIs and whether a given RESTful API actually follows REST principles. For the record, I set out to find a good example of someone ...

API Approaches Explained REST: The Web Standard REST (Representational State Transfer) organizes APIs around resources, linked to URL endpoints (e.g., /users/42).

Invoke-RestMethod natively understands the output a REST API method returns, which is typically JSON. When the API does return JSON, Invoke-RestMethod will parse the JSON and return useful PowerShell ...

The Web API framework allows developers to quickly create services using MVC-like conventions. It offers the flexibility of creating REST style services, and serving up data in a variety of formats, ...