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While SOAP-based web services form the backbone of most legacy web service implementations, RESTful APIs have become the de facto standard for cloud-native microservices development. In this ...

With its Cloud Resource Model API, Oracle joins Red Hat and Rackspace in offering a set of standard interfaces for building a cloud stack Joining a number of other vendors and multi-vendor initiatives ...

It could be argued that the contemporary world of the web is built on application programming interfaces (APIs) – or, more specifically, web APIs that allow a web application to access services and ...