7 Tips for Designing Secure REST APIs
Security is essential for REST APIs because our organizations depend on them.
5 Tips for Designing RESTful API URI
Each resource in the REST architecture is identified by it’s Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)
These tips are based on providing a uniform interface REST constraint.
What is JSON?
JSON is a great format for exchanging data, it’s used in almost all REST Apis for receiving and sending data.
RESTful API Design Cheat Sheet
A cheat sheet covering RESTful concepts for design and development.
The cheatsheet is one page and covers versioning, designing consistent URIs, HTTP methods, HTTP status codes, error handling and authentication/authorization.
REST API – Resources
REST APIs function primarily through the use of resources that are located at a certain URI.
Versioning in REST APIs
Versioning is one of the most critical parts of API design. Versioning allows us to potentially make breaking changes at some point in the future.
5 Tips for Better Caching in a REST API
The goal of caching is to avoid having to generate the same response twice.
In this blog article we look at five techniques for caching in a RESTful api.
Understanding how to use REST API and HTTP
A REST API is a type of API that confirms to the RESTful constraints. REST is designed to take advantage of existing protocols like HTTP.
HTTP Status Codes and HTTP Methods are the building blocks of building a good RESTful API.
What are REST API’s constraints?
REST or REpresentational State Transfer is an API architecture style that uses a uniform interface.
For an API to be RESTful there are six rules that it needs to follow.
Resolving Slow WordPress Websites
Slow WordPress websites can be difficult to improve especially if we don’t have a plan on how to resolve the problem. I have a list of five recommendations that I always look at doing when trying to resolve speed issues.
Best Practices for Documenting Your Salesforce Org
Documenting a Salesforce Org is really challenging because it can be complex especially when working across many different branches or divisions. Maintaining and keeping the documentation in sync is also really difficult if there isn’t significant executive sponsorship.
Connecting to the Salesforce Analytics APIs through Node.js
In this blog article, we’ll be focused in on the Analytics API because it’s primarily used for reporting and dashboards.
Adding Promise Support to a Node.js Library
I know that when I am working in JavaScript, I prefer to keep everything to using promises or async/await instead of occasionally using callbacks because a library doesn’t support them.
Connecting to the Salesforce APIs through Node.js
There are a number of different JavaScript modules or libraries that are available on npm to connect to the different REST based Salesforce APIs.
In this post, I show my favourite library.
Introduction to API Gateway
An API gateway is essential part of organizing requests that need to be processed by different microservices.
10 Common Enterprise Architecture Patterns
When looking at patterns it’s important to understand what tradeoffs are being made.
Migrating an Existing Express.js Based application to the Serverless Framework
AWS Lambda allows us to dramatically lower our costs for running an application. It’s fairly easy to convert an Express.js app into running in the serverless framework.
What is integration middleware?
Integration middleware is software that is used to fill the gaps between applications and databases. That means it allows remote systems to communicate with one another and even do transformations between systems.
What the heck is an Integration?
Integrations allow businesses to potentially save a lot of money by reducing duplicate data entry, reducing licensing costs, and allowing systems to interact end to end.
API Style Choices
APIs come in many different styles and types. Before running into a style we need to understand the different options and the trade offs that we are making.