Restlet Studio allows developers to generate client SDKs and server skeletons for your API definitions. We’ve published a new screencast showing how to do that.
Restlet Studio was also mentioned in InfoWorld’s 10 free tools for API design, development and testing.
The third and last part of Thierry Templier’s tutorial on interacting efficiently with a RESTful service with Angular JS 2 and RxJS is out. You can read part one and two if you haven’t done so yet.
I presented a talk on Rest API design at the Devoxx France conference in front of 850 developers, with great interactions with the audience and very interesting questions.
Mapping the API Serverless Market Landscape, posted by APIDays, talking about Mark Boyd’s API serverless architecture report.
Jérôme Louvel interviewed Gareth Jones of Microsoft on the Microsoft Graph unifying access to all APIs.
We published new screencasts:
- Expose MySQL data through a Web API with APISpark
- Downloading client SDKs and server skeletons for your API with Restlet Studio
And contributors created Restlet tutorials in Portuguese.
I’ve had the pleasure of writing my first article for Nordic APIs, on the topic of API definition languages, and how far should they go.
As well on Nordic APIs blog:
- Chris Wood on the evolution of the OpenAPI Specification, wondering whether OpenAPI actually means “open” or “closed” world.
- Tracking the growth of the API economy by Art Anthony, showing lots of nicer upward trending graphs!
- How APIs are streamlining healthcare by Art Anthony.
- The World War API: cyberattacks on the international scale by Kristopher Sandoval.
Kin Lane is raising the HTTP header awareness, talking about using the Link header for pagination.
Advice from Paris Mitton: never put secrets in URLs and query parameters. API keys, social security numbers and more, should not be visible in your URLs and query parameters, as intermediaries could intercept and log them, or those information are also kept in your browser history, or someone sharing such a URL with someone else could also inadvertently leak such information.
Arnaud Lauret comes back with part 4 on the advanced data modeling aspects with OpenAPI Spec.
Kin Lane has been working on the pricing & plans for 250 APIs.
Microsoft announces a preview of its PowerApps platform, a service for creating, managing and using custom business apps across platforms. Of particular interest, their integration with custom Web APIs defined by Swagger specs.
Paul Hallett is giving an explanation of what HATEOAS is, also giving some historical background on hypertext and hypermedia.
Jonathan Channon is defining what a hypermedia client is, as the literature tends to focus more on hypermedia on the server-side, with various media types and standards, but much less on the client-side of the story. Jonathan also dispel the myth of the smart hypermedia client that understands all the magical links in your payloads.
Oliver Gierke also reacts to that article in the benefits of hypermedia APIs.
Still on the theme of hypermedia and HATEOAS, Tomasz Pluskiewicz is exploring hypermedia with RDF, HAL, Hydra and Siren, in a series of posts: on the labours of hypermedia, a declarative UI for consuming hypermedia, and extensible media types.
How to geocode with the latlon.io API on ProgrammableWeb by Evan Marks.
Jenn Strater presented about test-driven approaches to documenting RESTful APIs.
Simplifying API documentation for a great first user experience by Abhinav Asthana.
Runscope is adding webhook into their API testing solution: monitor your webhook workflows with new incoming requests for API tests.
Marcin Grzejszczak released a new versions of Accurest and stub runner with 1.1.0.M3.
A new release of Swagger-codegen with version 2.1.6.
The differences between API and ESB patterns by Anant Jhingran and Arvind Jain.
The dates for RESTFest are out, with an edition in Scotland this summer, and the usual one in Greenville in the US.
The API Strategy & Practice conference announces its Call for Paper for the Boston edition.
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