Tag: Apis
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REST API design -- resource modeling
Posted on August 26, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
In this older article by Prakash Subramaniam from ThoughtWorks looks at the REST API design best practices. The key abstraction of information in REST is a resource. A resource is a conceptual mapping to a set of entities, not the entity that corresponds to the mapping at any particular point in time.
Tags restful apis web-development json
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GraphQL, everything you need to know
Posted on June 8, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Weblab Technology post about what GraphQL is all about and how it's different from the traditional approach. The purpose of this article is to highlight the major features associated with GraphQL along with discussing the significant pros and cons associated with this particular API specification.
Tags programming nosql apis software-architecture
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Angular security -- Authentication with JSON Web Tokens (JWT), complete guide
Posted on May 26, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Angular university brought you this a step-by-step guide for both designing and implementing JWT-based Authentication in an Angular application. The goal here is to discuss JWT-based Authentication Design and Implementation in general.
Tags nodejs javascript angular infosec apis
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Reusing & composing GraphQL APIs with GraphQL bindings
Posted on May 12, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Graphcool published tutorial about GraphQL bindings. With GraphQL bindings you can embed existing GraphQL APIs into your GraphQL server. In this article, they present a new application of schema stitching which makes it particularly easy to reuse, compose and share existing GraphQL APIs: GraphQL bindings.
Tags big-data apis nosql
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Comparing AWS Lambda performance of Node.js, Python, Java, C# and Go
Posted on March 10, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Yun Zhi Li -- VP of Engineering APAC at continoHQ -- wrote this article as a reaction to comparison of lambdas done in previous year by Yan Cui. He noticed that despite AWS adding more languages to lambda runtime, old languages were not neglected. In the article he reviewed and updated runtime performance benchmark of all five programming languages supported by AWS Lambda.
Tags serverless aws performance apis
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How to securely store API keys
Posted on March 7, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Bruno Pedro detailed blog post focusing on secure storage of your API keys in the cloud. Many people store sensitive information in private git repositories. If you do this, please think about it twice.
Tags infosec apis restful
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AWS AppSync GraphQL API with Golang Lambda source
Posted on February 25, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Sebastian Muller wrote this article / tutorial about AWS AppSync, a serverless GraphQL with support for custom data sources using AWS Lambda. To enable easy access to his RSS feed, author created a simple GraphQL API using AWS AppSync.
Tags aws serverless app-development apis
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GraphQL introduction at the REST-aurant
Posted on February 10, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Gregor intro into GraphQL. The article is accompanied with video presentation. If you ever wondered what GraphQL can do for you and you know a bit of JavaScript, this is an excellent post explaining basic concepts of GraphQL.
Tags restful apis nosql
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Introducing Twirp RPC framework for Golang
Posted on January 19, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Spencer Nelson published article in which he introduced an RPC framework they use for communication between backend servers written in Golang. It's called Twirp, and it's available now under an Apache 2 open source license.
Tags apis web-development infosec
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APIs - REST versus GraphQL
Posted on October 10, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Chimezie Enyinnaya blog post addressing all the fuss about GraphQL and what makes it different from REST. In this article, author took a technical look at REST versus GraphQL, comparing and contrasting the two API specifications.
Tags restful apis
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Making mistakes with GraphQL and lessons learnt
Posted on October 8, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length long
Bertrand Dubaut article from presentation given at the Amsterdam Ruby meetup. Real life GraphQL in production implementation, mistakes made, corrections and lessons learnt. System supports multiple clients (mobile and web).
Tags nosql apis software-architecture
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Development of a REST API in Spring Boot Framework
Posted on June 17, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length short
Dario Carrasque wrote post blog on topic of the evaluation of frameworks to develop REST APIs to satisfy requirements of modularity and availability.
Tags microservices frameworks restful apis