Think of a REST API like a waiter in a restaurant. You (an app) tell the waiter what you want (your request), and the waiter goes to the kitchen (the server) to get it for you. REST is just a set of ...

Microsoft predicted in 2020 that 100 million new apps would be created yearly, leading us to develop more applications in five years than during the last 40 years. This prediction was based on ...

74% of developers now prioritize API design when building applications, according to Postman’s 2024 State of the API Report Developers are shifting from code-first to API-first thinking when it comes ...

APIs are the backbone of modern software development, but let’s be honest—working with them can sometimes feel like navigating a maze without a map. Whether you’re debugging a tricky endpoint, testing ...

Google has announced the public preview of the Developer Knowledge API and MCP server, enabling AI assistants to access current developer documentation programmatically.

How do you create a beautiful API? Knowing that effective API development is as much an art as it is a science, TheServerSide posed this very question to MikeAmundsen (@mamund), the Principal API ...

Bernadette Nixon, CEO at Algolia, is an entrepreneurial & driven CEO with a strong track record of growing and scaling global businesses. An API request-response exchange process enables software ...