Posts in category 'Web APIs'
By the end of this guide you’ll have a working Spring Boot RESTful API, built with Gradle and documented with OpenAPI, and a live Swagger UI page you can show...
You’ve designed your API. Now comes the boring part: writing controllers, models and request mappings that only repeat what the spec already says. Swagger Codegen writes that code for you....
Most API problems aren’t coding problems. They’re design problems found too late: a missing field, an inconsistent name, an error nobody documented. Design-first fixes that by agreeing on the contract...
Your API has rate limiting. But does it actually work when several clients hammer different endpoints at the same time, on Black Friday? You don’t want to find out in...
A restaurant app needs a supplier’s food prices; the supplier’s system needs the restaurant’s orders. Two companies, two technologies, no shared code, and REST is how they talk. This tutorial...
A partner company starts integrating with your API. On day one, their developer writes a loop to load test data, and suddenly your API answers slowly for every other client....
Your nightly job sends 50,000 articles to a partner’s API, in batches of 1,000. At batch 23, the API answers 503 Service Unavailable. What should your client do? Give up,...
Your Java client calls an HTTPS API and fails before sending a single request:
Your REST API is documented with OpenAPI, and anyone who finds the URL can call it. This tutorial secures it with OAuth2: clients get a short-lived access token and send...
The main idea for documenting our back-end RESTful APIs is to communicate to third-party developers what our endpoints are doing.
