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.

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

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 ...

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, ...

Microsoft’s ASP.NET Web API is a lightweight framework you can use to build stateless RESTful services that run on HTTP. Exceptions are errors that occur at runtime, and exception handling is ...