An outage has halted automated access to congressional data, raising questions about whether the breakdown stems from a glitch or something more serious. The change came to light on Friday.

There is no sanctioning body or open source linter that can verify if a RESTful API conforms and complies with all applicable REST API naming conventions and best practices. However, REST API ...

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Take advantage of these best practices to ensure that changes to your API don’t break compatibility with current clients.

Taking a RESTful approach to developing APIs makes integration easier as software developers can concentrate on resources as well as services.

APIs seem to be everywhere these days. Every popular online service has one. APIs allow developers to interact with online services without actually having to point and click their way through a UI.

Developers use application programming interfaces to hide complexity, organize code, design reusable components, and connect different systems, applications, or services.