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Increased Analytics at the API Client and SDK Level

API providers are including more analytics services...but are the features more about data generation than they are about analytics?

October 7, 2016

by Kin Lane

· 4,061 Views · 1 Like

The Different Reasons Behind Why We Craft API Definitions

Kin Lane explains the process behind creating API definitions as a learning tool and considers why we craft API definitions.

October 7, 2016

by Kin Lane

· 3,169 Views · 2 Likes

An Integrations Page for Your API Solution

Kin Lane shares his thoughts about how you can be sure that you are keeping up with all of the new API service providers.

October 6, 2016

by Kin Lane

· 3,034 Views · 3 Likes

5 Basic REST API Design Guidelines

These guidelines from Guy Levin are intended to help you in creating clean, easy to use, and easily understandable APIs.

October 4, 2016

by Guy Levin

· 63,215 Views · 60 Likes

Results of the Ultimate REST API Challenge

SmartBear Software launched the Ultimate REST API Challenge for two weeks. Here are the answers to the eight-question quiz, with explanations for each one.

October 4, 2016

by Rema Alyahya

· 4,338 Views · 1 Like

IBM i Business Logic API With Mule

I walk through the process of exposing IBM i Business logic via APIs using Mulesoft Anypoint platform and Web Transaction Framework.

October 4, 2016

by Dmitriy Kuznetsov

· 4,690 Views · 2 Likes

The Elements of Modern Java Style

Code style is an important aspect of software development. When done consistently and correctly, code style can help improve the quality of software.

October 3, 2016

by Michael Tofinetti

· 31,477 Views · 26 Likes

API Design With Java 8

Learn to be a better Java programmer by mastering Java 8 API design, exposing a well-designed API, making sure that client code can use lambdas, and more.

September 30, 2016

by Per-Åke Minborg

· 101,981 Views · 165 Likes

Testing REST Services With Pyresttest

A few lines of YAML is all that it takes in order to test a REST service. It's pretty simple. Alan Hohn has all of the details.

September 30, 2016

by Alan Hohn

· 9,710 Views · 3 Likes

How to Read a Large CSV File With Java 8 and Stream API

Scenario: you have to parse a large CSV file (~90MB), practically read the file, and create one java object for each of the lines. What do you do?

September 28, 2016

by Eugen Hoble

· 264,154 Views · 27 Likes

Java DSL for Spring Integration 1.2 Milestone 2 Is Available

With the release of the Java DSL for Spring Integration 1.2 M2 now available, we take a look at what's included and what can be done!

September 23, 2016

by Artem Bilan

· 5,018 Views · 3 Likes

''AAA'' API Testing - Accessible, Affordable, Agile

How Service Virtualization addresses the growing challenge of testing third-party APIs.

September 22, 2016

by Heather Peyton

· 5,826 Views · 4 Likes

Imperative vs. Declarative Query Languages: What's the Difference?

To say that any non-imperative query language is declarative is too broad a definition. See how declarative and imperative languages work and where the work best.

September 20, 2016

by Joy Chao

· 14,793 Views · 4 Likes

RESTful Web Service With Example

Arun Pandey takes us through RESTful web service, examples included!

September 20, 2016

by Arun Pandey

CORE

· 140,205 Views · 21 Likes

Introducing PICQT for Writing Cucumber Tests With Iridium: Part I

PICQT provides a standard set of tags to maximize the value of your end to end Iridium tests. This two-part series provides a short introduction for you.

September 20, 2016

by Matthew Casperson

· 2,980 Views · 2 Likes

API Stylebook: A Collection of Resources for API Designers

An API stylebook is now available for API designers to use, complete with helpful techniques cobbled together from 12 API design guides. Read on to find out more!

September 17, 2016

by Kin Lane

· 6,475 Views · 6 Likes

MuleSoft: Parse a Flat File to Copybook

The quest to modernize legacy apps continues! This time, learn how you can use a Mule flow to transform a Flat File to a Copybook.

September 16, 2016

by Sulthony H

· 14,612 Views · 5 Likes

Reference API Gateway Models in CloudFormation

We take a look at defining API Gateway Models in CloudFormation using JSON. Read on to find out more.

September 9, 2016

by Michael Wittig

· 6,196 Views · 1 Like

Testing REST API File Uploads in JMeter

Learn how to create a multipart POST or PUT request from scratch, and see a demo to create and update a file in Google Drive using both POST and PUT requests from JMeter.

September 8, 2016

by Dmitri Tikhanski

· 36,073 Views · 4 Likes

Creating a Simple Java REST Service Using HTTP-RPC

We take a look at how to implement a Java-based web service using the HTTP-RPC framework. Read on to find out how and for some example code.

September 8, 2016

by Greg Brown

· 13,333 Views · 7 Likes

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