InfoQ Homepage Web API Content on InfoQ

Articles

RSS Feed

Older

Architecture & Design

Overcoming RESTlessness

New API protocols like GraphQL, gRPC, and Apache Kafka have risen in popularity as alternatives to REST-inspired HTTP APIs. Instead of seeking to replace REST, the software engineering industry should seek to evolve by building on the maturity of the REST ecosystem while exploiting the technological strengths of the new protocols.

Matt McLarty
on Feb 01, 2019 2
.NET

How to Test ASP.NET Core Web API

In this article, we will investigate testing your ASP.NET Core 2.0 Web API solutions. We will look at internal testing with Unit Testing and externally testing your solution with a new testing framework in ASP.NET Core called Integration Testing.

Chris Woodruff
on Dec 29, 2018 4
Architecture & Design

Give REST a Rest with RSocket

Representational State Transfer (REST) has become the de facto standard for communicating between microservices. The author argues that is not a good thing. We need a modern material to replace HTTP for creating modern services. Open source RSocket is designed for services. It is a connection-oriented, message-driven protocol with built-in flow control at the application level.

Robert Roeser
on Oct 15, 2018 17
.NET

The Argument for WCF Hosting in .NET Core

Should WCF Hosting be Supported in .NET Core? To a lot of people this seems like a strange question; the answer is obviously... yes? no? Well actually it is quite contentious with people on both sides of the issue fiercely arguing for their position. We’ll try to unpack the debate and explain the arguments on both sides.

Jonathan Allen
on Aug 22, 2018 1
.NET

Advanced Architecture for ASP.NET Core Web API

This article looks into how ASP.NET Core makes it easy to build a modern web API. This enables an implementation that is easy to design, test, and maintain. By using the Ports and Adapter Pattern business logic can be decoupled from API frameworks and data access.

Chris Woodruff
on Jun 01, 2018 18
Development

InfoQ Call for Articles

InfoQ provides software engineers with the opportunity to share experiences gained using innovator and early adopter stage techniques and technologies with the wider industry. We are always on the lookout for quality articles and we encourage practitioners and domain experts to submit feature-length (2,000 to 3,000 word) papers that are timely, educational and practical.

InfoQ.com
on Dec 01, 2017
Web API

An "Integration-First" Approach to Building a Commerce Platform for Payment Terminals

In this article Praveen Alavilli describes how they designed a payment terminal system for interoperability and extensibility, allowing developers to build new shopping experiences.

Praveen Alavilli
on Nov 13, 2017
Web API

Key Steps to Building and Managing an Effective API Marketplace

Across industries, companies are now looking for ways to shape their digital businesses by extending their services through external APIs. To reap the benefits of an API program, however, organizations need to move beyond basic API management to creating an API marketplace, a specialized type of platform business model that focuses on connecting producers and consumers.

Mifan Careem
on Nov 09, 2017
Web API

Always Be Publishing: Continuous Integration & Collaboration in Code Repositories for REST API Docs

API documentation is an often overlooked part of making any API a success. This article explores how to make the documentation part of a continuous integration pipeline keeping it closer to the code itself.

Anne Gentle
on Apr 25, 2017
Web API

Untangling an API-First Transformation at Scale. Lessons Learnt at PayPal – Part 3

This is the third in a three-part series that explores how PayPal has adopted a more API-first approach to building platform services. In this article, we’ll take a closer look at the program aspects and some of the execution and operational challenges that had to be overcome.

Deepak Nadig Erik Hogan
on Mar 03, 2017
Web API

Untangling an API-first Transformation at Scale. Lessons Learnt at PayPal – Part 2

This is the second in a three-part series that explores how PayPal has adopted a more API-first approach to building platform services. In this article, we’ll take a closer look at how the portfolio of API’s themselves are managed.

Erik Hogan
on Feb 23, 2017 5
Web API

Untangling an API-First Transformation at Scale. Lessons Learnt at PayPal – Part 1

In the first of three articles, Erik Hogan describes how PayPal went from a monolithic, siloed architecture to a much more loosely coupled set of over 150 services with well designed, modern APIs over the course of three years.

Erik Hogan
on Feb 17, 2017 4