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1. RESTful API Designing guidelines — The best practices
Facebook, Google, Github, Netflix and few other tech giants have given a chance to the developers and products to consume their data through APIs, and became a platform for them.<br>Even if you are not writing APIs for other developers and products, it is always very healthy for your application to have beautifully crafted APIs.
2. Sending Secret Messages with the Courier API and Node.js
In this tutorial, we will be building a Node.js app that sends multi-channel notifications in morse code.
3. We reverse engineered 16k apps, here’s what we found
In Nov’16, we created an online tool to reverse engineer any android app to look for secrets.
4. The System Design Cheat Sheet: API Styles - REST, GraphQL, WebSocket, Webhook, RPC/gRPC, SOAP
API Architecture Styles - REST, GraphQL, WebSocket, Webhook, RPC, SOAP
5. Adding OAuth2 to Mobile Android and iOS Clients Using the AppAuth SDK
OAuth2, often combined with OpenID-Connect, is a popular authorization framework that enables applications to protect resources from unauthorized access. It delegates user authentication to an authorization service, which then authorizes third-party applications to access the protected resources on the user’s behalf. OAuth 2 provides authorization flows for both web and mobile applications.
6. How To Import External Data Into Google Sheets Without Copy/Paste
Learn how to save time and eliminate manual data imports in Google Sheets by automatically connecting and importing data from external sources.
7. How to Build a Simple Blog Using Node.js
In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to create a simple blog using Node.js and Cosmic JS. This is going to be the fastest and most light-weight blog you have ever created. Let’s get started.
8. How to Build an Integration-As-A-Product – PM Approach
Integrate the market via API – based on real Strategy
9. How to Use Google Sheets API with Nodejs
First of all, a brief overview of our use case. Let's say I have a spreadsheet on Google Sheets which is not public and I want to be able to read/modify programmatically through some batch process running on my local machine or some server. This is something I had to do recently with a Node.js application and I found the authentication part a bit tricky to understand. So I thought of sharing my solution and I hope it helps someone in need. There might be better ways of doing this but I am sharing what worked best for me.
10. How I Recovered Deleted Telegram Messages and Media (and You Can Too)
Telegram deleted messages recovery guide: Learn how to retrieve group chat messages and media using Telegram API, admin logs, and open-source tools.
11. The Basics Of Designing an API Architecture
An introductory guide to understanding how API Architectures are designed.
12. Documenting GraphQL APIs
The main reason for writing API documentation is to make your API understandable. For GraphQL there are many options. Both interactive and static documentation.
13. How to Create a Simple Bash Shell Script to Send Messages on Telegram
In this article, you will walk through the creation of a simple Bash shell script to send messages to Telegram messenger using the Curl command. Then you will use this script to send a notification on every ssh login into your server.
14. Create a Temporary Gmail Account With Python
Sometimes you come across a number of adverts and websites that you need to signup for but don’t completely trust.
15. ChatGPT Go Libraries: A Comparison With Examples
Comparison of ChatGPT API clients for Go language
16. How PMs Can Build a Great Product Notification Experience
After reading this article, you’ll have the confidence and the tools to set up a notification system that delights and doesn’t annoy.
17. DynamoDB Filtering and Aggregation Queries Using SQL on Rockset
How to use DynamoDB and Rockset together to build a fast, delightful application experience for users.
18. A Cache is Fast: Enhancing our API with Redis
In the last couple weeks we’ve used <a href="https://hackage.haskell.org/package/persistent" target="_blank">Persistent</a> to store a <code class="markup--code markup--p-code">User</code> type in a Postgresql database. Then we were able to use <a href="https://hackage.haskell.org/package/servant" target="_blank">Servant</a> to create a very simple API that exposed this database to the outside world. This week, we’re going to look at how we can improve the performance of our API using a <a href="https://redis.io/" target="_blank">Redis</a> cache.
19. How to get data from API in Excel
How to get data from API JSON in Excel table with the simplest tutorial with formula. Ready to go open-sourced VBA formula with intuitive video tutorial
20. Python for Data Science: How to Scrape Website Data via the Internet's Top 300 APIs
21. How To Improve Your Backend By Adding Retries to Your API Calls
Whether you're making API calls from Node.js or in the browser, connection failures are going to happen eventually. Some request errors are valid. Maybe the endpoint was wrong or the client sent the wrong data. Other times you can be sure that the error is the result of a problem with the connection to the server or one of the many hops in-between. While API and web service monitoring can inform you about the problem, a more active solution can take care of it for you.
22. OpenAPI 3.0 Schema with Swagger UI for Django RESTful App
Let’s use drf-spectacular to simplify creation of beautiful docs for your Django application according to the OpenAPI Specification version 3. Sounds easy? It wasn’t for me…
23. What Is A Transaction Relayer And How Does It Work?
Article written by Vincent Le Gallic - CTO @Rockside
24. Why We Switched from NGINX Is to KONG API Gateway
For many developers, NGINX would be the primary choice for reverse proxy. However, we moved on to something more exciting! NGINX move over, here comes the Kong!
25. How to Improve the Security of API Keys
As a developer, API Keys are typically issued to you to identify the project you are working on and to enforce rate and access limits on proper API usage. These API keys are typically just static secrets baked into your app or web page, and they are pretty easy to steal but painful to replace. You can do better.
26. Automating Instagram API Using Python: Gain Active Followers
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27. First experiences with React Native: bridging an iOS native module for app authentication
Photo by Liu Zai Hou on Unsplash
28. Scraping Information From LinkedIn Into CSV using Python
In this post, we are going to scrape data from Linkedin using Python and a Web Scraping Tool. We are going to extract Company Name, Website, Industry, Company Size, Number of employees, Headquarters Address, and Specialties.
29. What Frontend Devs Want (From Backend Devs)
Backend developers can help frontend developers work with their API more efficiently and ship the product with as little friction as possible.
30. You're Not Using HTTP Status Codes Right
In this article, we will be discussing some of the common mistakes that developers do when using HTTP status codes.
31. How to Retrieve Player Stats from the NHL's undocumented REST API
It's that time of year again. Summer is coming to an end, Autumn is around the corner, and the NHL season is about to begin.
32. From Python to Telegram: Build your own Notification System
Learn how to send messages from python script to Telegram chat.
33. How to Use the Google Sheets API with Python
Tutorial describing the steps to configure a Google Cloud Platform project to allow programmatic integration with the Google Sheets API via Python.
34. API Error Handling in React
I will tell you what formats for common handlers exist and why it is better to agree on a single format with the backend than to fence a new solution every time
35. 5 Best Stock Market APIs in 2024: A Guide for Data Scientists & Algorithmic Traders
Best stock market data APIs for data scientists and algorithmic traders: Alpha Vantage, Barchart OnDemand, Tradier, Intrinio, and Xignite.
36. The Best JavaScript APIs for File Upload in 2025
This article highlights the eight best JavaScript APIs for file uploads in 2025, analyzing factors such as scalability, ease of use, and advanced features.
37. I Tested the Web Share API: Here Are the Results
Honestly, I'm not sure I'd use this. For cases where a URL or file is not being shared, it does not seem to work well. And sharing a file seems problematic.
38. The Anatomy of an API Gateway in Golang
Build your own API gateway in Go
39. How to Simulate a Backend REST API with json-server for CRUD Development in React
Simulate a backend REST API for React development with json-server. Set up a fake REST API to prototype and mock frontend application.
40. Building an Arduino Time Tracker Cube with Toggl's Open API
How to build your own Time Tracker out of Cardboard Paper and Toggl's Open APIs
41. A Beginners Guide to Learn Mock Fetching in jest
I am writing this post to show how to mock and test fetch with jest-fetch-mock. let's suppose that you are using Jest and you are comfortable with “async/await”.
42. Why do we Need the JSON Web Token (JWT) in the Modern Web Era?
Hold on tight: the HTTP protocol is terribly flawed(*) and when it comes to user authentication this problem screams loudly.
43. Running a Python Script to Scrape LinkedIn Profiles From Google
LinkedIn is a great place to find leads and engage with prospects. In order to engage with potential leads, you’ll need a list of users to contact. However, getting that list might be difficult because LinkedIn has made it difficult for web scraping tools. That is why I made a script to search Google for potential LinkedIn user and company profiles.
44. How To Build and Sell APIs
Building and selling APIs is a great way to create a new source of passive income.
45. Introducing Vortex: A Stateless Tunneling Service
Vortex is a stateless ngrok alternative that you can use at work and at your favorite coffee shop. Instant public URLs to expose your localhost server.
46. How to Handle REST API Requests in React
REST APIs are commonly used in web development. They are programming interfaces that web apps use to 'talk' to each other. They are used to access features and data. 'REST' (Representational State Transfer) is a concept that defines the APIs properties. This article will focus on the use of web-based APIs to retrieve data from a database.
47. My Best Travel APIs
APIs are useful tools in general but can be made exceptionally useful when combining a number of them to accumulate information to help you plan trips.
48. How to Temporarily Resolve CORS Error in the Console
You may have exhausted all solutions to make your site render on the browser but nothing seems to work. Then, you’ve checked the developer tools console only to get an error saying that CORS is blocking your API requests.
49. How to Fetch Large Data Files Through GitHub API
At Hackernoon, I had a task to fetch some files from GitHub API. Initially, I thought it'd be a simple GET request but soon I realized the work is a headache. The file I needed was quite large and hence the response was telling me to use something different than I already knew. I ended up spending two days on this issue.
50. The Essential Guide to Load-Balancing Minecraft Servers with Kong Gateway
We're going to explore port forwarding and load balancing with Kong Gateway by spinning up multiple Minecraft servers,
51. How to Build Your Own Crypto Trading App: A Step-by-Step Tutorial
Build a crypto trading app using Flask, Binance API, Docker/GitHub Actions, and explore revenue strategies.
52. What Role do DeviceCheck and SafetyNet play in App Authentication?
Both iOS and Android provide built-in device-level checks which can help prevent mobile application abuse. On iOS, DeviceCheck provides a way to associate a few pieces of information per app with each device, On Android, SafetyNet device attestation attempts to ensure that a device is running in a safe environment. These are useful capabilities, but they are only a small part of an in-depth mobile app and API protection scheme.
53. Testing REST APIs easily in Python with pyhttptest
Nowadays every one of us is facing REST APIs by either developing or consuming such a service. Also, we’re in the trendy era of microservices, where we splitting our business logic into small separate services independent from each one. Mostly these services follow RESTful principles and using the JSON format for communication, which became the most widely used format, because of its simplicity.
54. GraphQL vs REST: How To Choose One Over The Other
We will look at REST and GraphQL, consider their principles and weigh the pros and cons of both technologies.
55. Multiprocessing for heavy API requests with Python and the PokéAPI
While working on a recent project, I realized that heavy processes for python like scrapping could be made easier though python's multiprocessing library. The documentation and community engaging in multiprocessing is fairly sparse, so I wanted to share some of my learnings through an example project of scrapping the PokéAPI. Below I wrote a bit of code that pulls all of the available pokémon while minding the API's 100 calls per 60 second limits. You'll see that the iteration is fairly slow as there are 964 pokémon the API returns.
56. Implement Dynamics REST API using Node.js [Tutorial]
Microsoft Dynamics 365 is a cloud-based business applications platform that combines components of customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP), along with productivity applications and artificial intelligence tools, although currently Dynamics is more popular for its CRM capabilities.
57. Machine Learning Model with FLASK REST API
In this tutorial we will see how you can make your first REST API for Machine Learning Model using FLASK. We will start by creating machine learning model. Then we will see step-by-step procedure to create API using Flask and test it using Postman.
58. Build a Login and Logout API using Express.js (Node.js)
Step by step to build Node.js Express Registration, Login, and Logout API using JWT and Cookies - Node.js Express Login API with MongoDB (Mongoose) database.
59. Learning the basics of MongoDB by Writing a User Registration API
Learning MongoDB has been one of the things in my checklist for the past 6 months but hasn’t gotten around actually learning it until now. In order to understand writing queries and all I figured it’ll be better to make something instead of just reading and watching some tutorials. So, I’ve decided to make a user registration API i.e, a simple registration form kinda thing with only sign up and sign in functions as of now. As learning Mongo was the main intention, I’ve decided just to make the core app which is the backend functionality and no front end as it’s not necessary and I hate to do it.
60. How to Set up an API Gateway for Your Microservices
How to deploy a single node Kong API gateway in front of multiple microservices?
61. How to Fetch Data From an API in React.js
Without any doubt, the use of React is increasing day by day. And also API(Application Programming Interface) is gaining more popularity in the modern era of technology. This article will guide a beginner to play with React to API.
62. How to Build a MVP REST API Using Low-Code Approach
Build and host and API in 15 minutes? Crazy? No, really!
63. How to Create an Instant Search Input with Debounce in React.js
I recently built an anime app that fetches details about animes from an external API. The project had an input field where you could type in the name of an anime to search for. The text typed in the input field was then used to query the API for animes matching the input. The input field was to use “instant search” mechanism. This meant that users where not required to hit enter or press a button for the search to occur. To prevent making a call to the API on every keystroke, I had to debounce the queries made to the API.
64. Basic Elixir Api Guide
Elixir represents relatively new programming language for wider audience. It was published back in 2011, and is in development ever since. His main trait is that adops functional pardigm because it is built on top of Erlang and runs on BEAM(Erlang VM).
65. Issues With Setting up Azure Functions with a Service Bus Trigger
So recently we had a problem. We’ve started building a micro-service based e-commerce platform that communicates using azure service bus. Unfortunately, we found that setting up azure functions with a service bus trigger either ended up with a lot of code to maintain or a lot of deployment pipelines. It was getting to be a pain, so we looked for an alternative which we found with logic apps and a bootstrapper function which I’ll take you through how to implement.
66. Accessing Power BI Data with Python & Power BI REST API
The Power BI Report Server REST API enables developers to programmatically access and manage the report server catalog.
67. Flask API Containerization using Docker
Nowadays, putting shiny new applications in containers seems to be the way of the future, and for good reason. They offer platform portability, hardware efficiency, and enhanced security. In this tutorial, we are going to take a very simple Flask API, put it in a Docker container, and then test it out using Postman.
68. What is Broken Access Control and Why Should You Care?
With broken access control being one of the most prevalent weaknesses for web applications, it’s important to not only understand it, but to prevent it also.
[69. How Fitt Insider Started With
a Newsletter and Reached The
Top of the Fitness Industry](https://hackernoon.com/how-fitt-insider-started-with-a-newsletter-and-reached-the-top-of-the-fitness-industry)
When it comes to building a successful business, the journey of Anthony Vennare, co-founder of Fitt Insider, offers invaluable insights. From leveraging persona
70. Top Transcription APIs and Open Source Libraries in 2022
This article looks at some of the top transcription APIs and open source libraries available on the market today.
71. The Top Java Excel API Libraries
Explore the top Java Excel API Libraries and their notable features for your applications in this review of leading options.
72. Introducing Starlite: A New Python Asynchronous API Framework
Introducing the python Starlite API framework - a new async (ASGI) framework built on top of pydantic and Starlette
73. 8 Most Popular Weather APIs for 2020
The climate is a hot issue and weather forecasting technology is suddenly cool. The urgent need for innovative weather and environmental conditions forecasting solutions is obvious whether you believe in climate change or not.
74. Building RESTful Web Service Using C++, Swagger UI And Auto-Documented Endpoints
This is a 5 minutes tutorial how-to-use Oat++ (AKA oatpp) web framework to build your own C++ performant web-service and integrate it with Swagger-UI.
75. API Solution for Prop-tech Companies
Discover London's prop-tech evolution via APIs. Explore parking, rentals, office spaces reshaped by innovative solutions.
76. Validating Zero Enum Value in the Protocol Buffer
How to validate that an enum value field in Protobuf can not be empty? Turn out that is not supported directly by Protobuf!
77. How to use NLP to SQL API?
Data is useless without the ability to easily get and act on it. The success of future enterprises will combine sophisticated information collection with better user experience, and the Natural Language User Interface comprises much of this user experience.
78. LiteLLM: Call Every LLM API Like It's OpenAI
LiteLLM — a package to simplify API calls across Azure, Anthropic, OpenAI, Cohere and Replicate.
79. Error 429 Too Many Requests: What to Do When You've Been Rate Limited?
Your application is running smoothly. Tests have passed. Suddenly you start to see 429 error responses from an API. As the name implies, you have made too many requests and your application has been rate limited. The 429 (Too Many Requests) error is an HTTP status code that often occurs when you've hit a request limitation of an API.
80. 5 Best Practices for Integrating with External APIs
the must-have practices if you use external APIs
81. A Detailed Introduction to Service-Oriented Programming
Some principles are emerging for what one might call service-oriented programming languages. The principles are general, so they can help when thinking about code even when operating outside of these languages.
82. How to Convert Rest APIs into Databases: Create a JDBC driver
A lot of data over the web or internally in an enterprise is available and accessible only through Rest APIs. Rest APIs do provide a secure and authenticated mechanism to access these services, but they are not very intuitive sometimes to query upon the data which is fetched through them.
83. How to Use Mock API in Playwright
Mocking API is a common feature in testing frameworks. In Playwright, to do that, you have to use the page.route method.
84. 10+ Best Voice Calling APIs & Live Audio Streaming SDKs of 2022 Reviews
Do you enhance the voice call feature in your web & app? I ranked & reviewed of best voice calling APIs and live streaming SDKs based on reviews, cost, clients
85. Image Storage in Rails Apps Using Cloudinary and Active Storage
Ruby on Rails has an awesome gem to upload, store and display images: Active Storage. It's very easy to use and it comes with a local disk-based service, that should be enough to store everything you need if you just want to practice using Rails.
86. How to Write Fewer Lines of Code with the OpenAPI Generator
Hey! I'll start with the main thing - I'm a lazy person. I'm a very, very lazy developer. How can I get rid of the need to write at least part of the code?
87. Functional Testing With Your Backend in Go
For Terrastruct, which has a little over 50K lines of code as of now, I've only written functional end-to-end tests. This blog post describes a successful setup that took some iterating to get to, and it's one I wish existed when I started with a Go API backend.
88. An Introduction to GraphQL
GraphQL is the new frontier in APIs (<em>Application Programming Interfaces</em>).
89. API Explained In Simple Terms
I'm pretty sure you would have heard the term API, and if you were wondering what it is, then this is the article for you.
90. Your First Simple Crypto Trading Bot Using LunarCrush and 3Commas
Learn how to utilize LunarCrush unique social listening metrics with your 3Commas cryptocurrency trading bot to trigger specific trade activities.
91. The RTK Query, API Splitting Approach, and the Nuances of "Making Life Simpler"
RTK Query is definitely a cool library however it’s sadly not applicable to all of the use cases possible with an API.
92. Using Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) versus Black Scholes Model to value Stocks [A How-To Guide]
Should we choose a model that gives a flawed but mostly usable coefficient, or should we choose a model that may give a very good or at times a very bad estimate depending on the nature of the data?
93. How To Create a Google SERP Checker in Python
The goal of SEO is to get your website to the top of the search engine. One excellent way of tracking SEO progress is by checking the Search engine result pages (SERPs) of a website.
94. How To Send Emails with Nodejs and EmailJS Module
It’s 2021 and JavaScript has taken over the development landscape. At this point there is a JavaScript library or framework for everything. So you have a few different options if you want to send emails directly from your browser side code. For example you can always just include your email handle in a link. If your users have their system set up correctly a simple click will open their email account with your email in the mailto: slot(aka send). However as a developer this seems less than ideal because it requires that your users have the proper set up to handle the action.
95. Explore How to Effectively Use JWT With FastAPI
Develop and test JWT with FastAPI
96. I created Postwoman 👽 - An online, open source API request builder
Postwoman 👽 - API request builder
97. Validate Your PHP API Tests Against OpenAPI Definitions – A Laravel Example
Am I proud of this montage? You bet I am (by the author)
98. Playwright vs Cypress for REST API Automated Tests: Who Comes Out on Top?
Picking a test automation framework for both UI and API tests? - Find out what difficulties you might face when you make a choice...
99. The Complete Microservice Tutorial: Introduction [Part 1]
Project Link: https://github.com/Joker666/microservice-demo/
100. How One Blockchain-based ISO 20022 API Will Revamp the Payments Realm Globally
Impel's ISO 20022 Application Programming Interface (API) comes at an opportune time to complement the wider adoption of ISO 20022, including instant payments.
101. Enhancing Test Reliability: Exploring Playwright's Retry APIs for Robust Testing
The built-in retry mechanisms for locators and matchers in Playwright are well-known, but are you acquainted with the retry and polling APIs? Let's delve into P
102. How to Fetch Statistics From YouTube API Using Python
In this article, we’ll learn how to use the YouTube API to get the full playlists of any channel (not only your own) and get all videos from a playlist.
103. CRUD and the 7 RESTful actions
When I’m learning something new I like to talk to myself about it until I feel I understand it. You can feel when you’re just hiding behind the fact that no one else is questioning you, and you’re really just kind of lying to yourself. “Yeah yeah, REST, CRUD, awfully simple…”
104. Laravel Homestead: Why, How, and When to Use It In Developement
How to replicate your production environment in your local machine with a few configuration.
105. How to do API Caching with Dio and Hive in Flutter
With this short guide you can add caching to your flutter app that requests an API or a web server and receives information that is required to be stored.
106. Supercharge Your API Testing with Postman's AI-Powered Assistant
Elevate API Testing with Postman AI Assistant for Unmatched Efficiency.
107. A Guide to API Versioning Best Practices
In this article, we will be discussing some of the best practices for API versioning for ease of user consumption and flexibility.
108. Loaded in 600 Milliseconds: How To Improve Website Speed
Learn how to bump up your website load time and improve performance in less than a day with concrete examples
109. Using JSON Mapping to Work with APIs of Various Image Services
Using JSON Mapping to Work with APIs of Various Image Services. This approach is applicable to any other services that are similar in type of returned results.
110. 6 Best APIs for Topic Detection in 2022
This article examines the best APIs on the market for performing Topic Detection in 2022.
111. What Is Cloudwatch Embedded Metrics?
I can’t believe not many people are talking about this AWS feature. It’s a game changer!
112. "For Publishers, Super Powerful AI Functions are a Single API Call Away" says HackerNoon Founder/CEO
Tim Keary from Techopedia interviews HackerNoon CEO David Smooke on roles of AI in the newsroom.
113. How to Execute a Scheduled Task in Keycloak on Startup
In this article, we will look at how to execute a scheduled task in Keycloak on startup using a Kafka consumer as an example.
114. Understanding Ethereum and EVM Traces
In this article, we’ll look at the type of data traces give you, how you can execute a trace, and options for tracing — manual, running archive nodes.
115. Getting Your API Into Production
Building an API yourself and getting it into production so your users can start using it can be a significant challenge.
116. The Only API You Need!
"The Only API" is an open-source SDK that allows developers to query for anything they need in any data format. It has limitless capabilities. Try it now!
117. Another approach to design API for improved performance!
GraphQL is an amazing specification, no doubt about that. I loved it when it first came into my knowledge but as I started learning it, well, I started to hate it and I still do at some extent because I am still learning it. So much boilerplate code to even starting the graphQL server.
118. Webhooks Using Python - A Guide
A guide on how to build webhooks using Python
119. Creating Telegram Bots with n8n, a No-Code Platform
I am a big fan of Telegram because of its great bot-ecosystem. I have been planning to make a bot for a while and have been looking for some nice workflow tools that can help me accomplish handling the back-end workflow of the bots visually. Recently, I started working with n8n, a fair-code licensed tool that helps you automate tasks, sync data between various sources and react to events all via a visual workflow editor.
120. .Net Core 3.0 API and Swashbuckle: Disabled Model Binding and XML Document File
Swashbuckle is a handy tool which you can use to document your API. It's very powerful and in my opinion, that implies that it's quite complex and can be a bit overwhelming. I used it recently on a project and found myself spending more than a few hours of searching the internet to find the answers to all my questions. Considering the time it took me to put everything together, I decided it was worth to share my findings.
121. JavaScript for Testers Part 1: JS Basics for Postman
The article is about the bare minimum basics to learn JavaScript for testing APIs with the Postman tool.
122. An In-depth Guide to Depop Bots
Here’s everything you need to know about depop bots.
123. End to End API Testing with Docker
Testing is a pain in general. Some don't see the point. Some see it but think of it as an extra step slowing them down. Sometimes tests are there but very long to run or unstable. In this article you'll see how you can engineer tests for yourself with Docker.
124. We're Building an Open-Source LLM/AI API Wrapper: Here's Why
This article explains Eden AI's Open Source project, which is developing an AI and LLM API wrapper to simplify use in an ever-changing market.
125. A Guide to Using MongoDB Database in a ASP NET Core Web API Application
When you think about database providers for ASP NET Core apps, you probably think about Entity Framework Core (EF Core), which handles interacting with SQL databases. But what about the NoSQL options? A popular option for NoSQL is MongoDB. So in this article we're going to learn how to create a simple ASP NET Core CRUD API using MongoDB as the database provider.
126. 5 Best Practices for Designing RESTful APIs
127. How Pagination Works in GraphQL
In this post, we'll compare different pagination methods in GraphQL and learn how to configure a REST directive to perform cursor-based pagination with StepZen
128. Build Data-Driven Web App Without Backend
129. How To Create Golang REST API: Project Layout Configuration [Part 3]
Good cake is the one you can easily slice into parts with no crumbs falling apart. That's all this project is about: 3 simple parts, no nasty additives. In part 1 and part 2 I've explained the basics of setting up golang project using docker, creating configurable server, interacting with DB, adding routes and handlers.
130. How To Use a FastAPI Abstraction To Query AWS Data Lake
Our guide in creating FastAPI abstraction that allows us to query the AWS Glue metadata catalog - a Data Discovery API for AWS Data Lake.
131. The API-based Business Model
Nothing beats the success story of a visionary leader who decides to take a bold course that sets the standard for how an industry operates. In the realm of technology, one of these stories is the infamous API mandate that Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, sent out in 2002. For many technologists, the mandate wasn’t just the regular email, but it was the moment that the digital platform as we know it today was born. What is often overlooked, however, is that the interface-mandate (i.e., API-mandate) not only revolutionized internet technology development but it also changed how new business models came to be and how a wealth of new value was created.
132. Using Python to Interact with OpenAI's GPT-3.5, GPT-4, and GPT-4o APIs
Python serves as an ideal language for integrating GPT APIs into various applications.
133. I Could Have Hacked All Uber Accounts- But I Chose to Report it Instead
This is being published with the permission of Uber under the responsible disclosure policy. The vulnerability detailed in this blog post is being disclosed by Anand Prakash of AppSecure. This was plugged quickly by the security team at Uber. This issue is similar to Facebook’s access token leak which was discovered last year https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/28/facebook-says-50-million-accounts-affected-by-account-takeover-bug/
134. Analyzing Twitter Conversations with the New Twitter V2 API
Getting actionable insights around a topic using the new Twitter API v2 endpoint
135. 6 Stock APIs to Use in 2021 [Review]
We have checked all of them, based on specific parameters to find the best stock data API and what APIs professional traders are using.
136. How to Implement Cloud APIs: Google Drive API, Dropbox API, and OneDrive API
Practical application of Cloud APIs such as Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive can be tricky. To simplify, we described the integration process step-by-step.
137. Getting to Know gRPC
Need a quick beginner's guide to gRPC? What is it? How do you set up a client and server, and make an RPC call? All your answers are here!
138. How To Automate Your Processes Using HTTP Request Node From n8n
With over 150 nodes, n8n saves countless hours by automating repetitive tasks. But what happens when n8n doesn’t have a node for a tool you love?
139. 🧩 Why Do We Need APIs Anyways?
If you’ve been anywhere close to a computer engineer, you’d have definitely noticed them drop the term - API. A software engineer would use the term for so many varied purposes that it’s easy to lose the track of the conversation and left hanging in there, wondering, “Why the heck we need APIs?”
140. GraphQL Subscriptions: Using SSE/Fetch over Websockets
"WebSockets should be deprecated for GraphQL Subscriptions. Instead, we're proposing to use Server Sent Events."
141. Automate Your Writing: Publishing to Medium with Python and the Medium API
To streamline my workflow, I decided to develop a Python script that automates the publication of Markdown files directly to Medium’s API.
142. From Zero to Hero: Learning Web3 With Infura and Python
Learning web3 development can seem daunting, even for experienced developers. Working with Python and Infura's API simplifies the initial learning process.
143. Mastering the Singleton Design Pattern in APIs: When to Use and When to Avoid
The Singleton Design Pattern in Python can be a powerful tool for managing shared resources and ensuring only one instance of a class exists. However, it's impo
144. Building an End-to-End Dynamic C# Web API with Dapper for Data Access
Step-by-step guide on how to create an end-to-end dynamic C# Web API project using Dapper for data access.
145. Simple Framework To Document Microservices And A Bonus Tool 🚀
Over the years of working with microservices, we discovered key points that you have to keep track of in order to maintain good ...
146. Building an API in Rust with Rocket.rs and Diesel.rs Following Clean Architecture
In this guide I’m going to walk you through the process of building a simple CRUD API from scratch in Rust using Rocket.rs.
147. Understanding GraphQL [Part 1]
Introduction
148. The Top C# .NET Excel API Libraries
Explore the top C# .NET Excel API Libraries and their notable features for your applications in this review of leading options.
149. Roughly Half of Data Scientists Consider Model Monitoring a Major Nuisance: Does It Have to Be So?
According to a recent survey, model monitoring is one of the least liked and most dreaded stages of the whole ML life cycle
150. The Ultimate Guide to Best News APIs
The ultimate guide to the best news APIs, written by a professional data wrangler and ML practitioner.
151. Store API Credentials Safely: Obfuscation Before Encryption is Key
How to keep API secrets and keep peace of mind.
152. WTF Are APIs?
If you’re a working professional, you’ve probably heard your coworkers talk about APIs, Web Services, endpoints, and other weird words like 200 and 401. What the heck does it mean and what’s the difference between them?
153. Axios or Fetch: What Is Better for HTTP Requests?
Ever wondered why developers are going for Axios over fetch? As we are aware both are the means to deal with HTTP or XMLHttp requests, Both are capable of making all types of API calls (get, post,put.. etc.). Both are based on Promise API which is native to ES6. But what are the major points to be noted?
154. Deploying Twitter Bot to Heroku
Most of us are familiar with Twitter. But we are not much familiar that we can automate the activities like status posting, retweeting, liking, commenting and so on. So,here I'll show you how we can automate some of the activities like getting the twitter data,posting the status and retweeting with Node.js and a npm package called Twit.
155. A Comprehensive Guide to OpenAPI Specification
OpenAPI Specification (formerly Swagger Specification) is an API description format for REST APIs. An OpenAPI file allows you to describe your entire API.
156. The REST of the 10 Commandments
Find out how to build great REST APIs in any language by following these 10 essential rules.
157. So, Like, What is an API Key Really? And How Does it Provide Security?
An API key is a secret code that gets you inside. Yeah it does!
158. Integrating Stripe Checkout with Next.js Is Easier Than You Think
Learn how to seamlessly integrate Stripe Checkout with Next.js in this step-by-step guide. Set up a sandbox environment, get your API keys, and start accepting
159. How to implement TLS OR SSL and set up HTTP(S) Load Balancing with Ingress for the Kubernetes API
Learn step-by-step implement TLS/SSL and HTTPS Load Balancing setup with Ingress for the Kubernetes API for secure your applications using search manager.
160. Getting Started with the Adobe Photoshop APIs
A look at how you can automate image manipulation via the Photoshop API.
161. How To Setup Environmental Variables In A Rails Application
162. Doing API Monitoring the Right Way: Metrics and Best Practices
In this post, we'll go through the best practices for API monitoring, such as which metrics to prioritize and how to troubleshoot when an issue arises.
163. How To Generate API Blueprint using SwagGo
Generating API blueprint REST API Golang using SwagGo tools
164. How to Build an AI-Generated Procedural Application
Develop an AI-Generated Encyclopedia while managing Scaling Challenges, Error handling and Cost Reduction Strategies using OpenAI’s API
165. Fetch Data From an API in React.js Using React Hooks
Create a web page that takes a city name as input and provides weather data about the city.
166. How To Build An API Without Coding [Python]
I’ve spent the last 10 years of my life as a System Engineer, which means when I first had to build an API, I had no idea how to do it. I knew python quite a bit since as a SysAdmin I often had to write some smaller or bigger scripts, but building the whole API was a challenge for me. Sure — I could just google the phrase and find dozens of tutorials on how to build an API, but all of them were somehow complicated or created for raw developers (which means — with assumptions that you know already all the tools and frameworks that developers use).
167. Challenges of Working With Cryptography APIs in NodeJS
One of the main reasons that lead to insecure NodeJS applications is insecure or bad usage of cryptography APIs. Developers who are not very familiar with such APIs and the underlying crypto concepts often struggle to choose secure configuration options or to even get their code up and running.
168. Open Source API Analytics and Monitoring Tools - A Comparison
For any API-first company, implementing the right API analytics platform is critical for tracking the utilization of your APIs and to discover any performance or functional issues that may be impacting customers. There are a variety of open-source projects you can leverage to build a complete API analytics platform.
169. Set up WebSocket for Your ReactJS-app in 5 Minutes!
Make the most out of your ReactJS app with the help of WebSocket on no-code Directual! An easy way to make a chat app, get notifications, and much more.
170. Levered Versus Unlevered DCF Statements Can Drastically Change a Company Valuation [An Analysis]
171. How to Send SMS and MMS Messages at Scale: What is Your Number?
If you’re a marketing department and you want to reach the widest audience possible, text messaging is the best channel to do that with.
172. Giving Your Single Page Application (SPA) an API - The Quickest Way
I’ve been working with low-code tools for years, building automation integrations, and APIs. Recently, I’ve wondered whether we’ve advanced far enough to use a low-code platform as the back-end for a single page application (SPA).
173. All The Best API Related Blogs and Newsletters
APIs have fascinating implications for how companies are built. We compiled a list of the best places to get the most impactful information on APIs.
174. How to Build a Music Recognition Chatbot on WhatsApp Using Node.js
Application example using Node.js where a simple chatbot will be implemented on the WhatsApp for music recognition.
175. Top Tools for Rapid API Development
From design to deploy, these tools will have your API and microservices up and running in no time.
176. JSON Web Token: How To Secure Your Data With JWT
177. Is GraphQL Still a Thing in 2020?
GraphQL has become the most loved tool for API development in a very short span of time, and developers across the world cannot seem to get enough of it. Today I met with the founder of Windsor.io, Pranay Prakash, who has worked on the team behind GraphQL during his time at Facebook. I chatted with him to find out more about his experience working closely with Lee Byron, the creator of GraphQL, and some of GraphQL’s benefits.
178. Use the Kong Gateway to Stop Coding Repetitive Service Components
Discover a new toolset aimed at solving application and API connectivity challenges, while still staying focused and meeting business needs.
179. CI for APIs with the Kong Insomnia CLI and GitHub Actions
Create a simple server with Node.js and Express, write API tests using Kong Insomnia, and then run these tests in our CI pipeline with Inso and GitHub Actions.
180. How to Sell an API to Non-Developers
When selling an API to a non-developer, there’s an extra level of complexity involved: many of these people don’t know what an API is or what it can do for them.
181. How to Build an IoT Application Using an HTTP API
In this walkthrough, we'll build an IoT application that uses Python to call an HTTP API, and then we'll deploy that application to an M5Stack IoT device.
182. The Top C# .NET PDF API Libraries
Explore the top C# .NET PDF API Libraries and their notable features for your applications in this review of leading options.
183. Everything You Need to Know About PSD2 and Open Banking
The financial industry has grown incredibly large over the past several decades. From conventional bank wire and cash payments, our financial systems have quickly evolved into online-driven, e-wallet-type platforms where almost every major or minor transaction is just several clicks away.
184. Insomnia & Rest Can Go Together: 6 Amazing Insomnia REST Features
How to use Insomnia REST to speed up API development and testing? Environment variables, Requests Chaining, Requests History and other features to the rescue!
185. Working with APIs ( Concepts + Code )
Hi Folks !! Hope you all computer geeks are doing well . In this post, we will discuss about how to get data from any API using any programming language . Yes ! You read it right !! Well, i will be using JavaScript and Python in here but you can use any language of your choice.
186. A Nodejs Tutorial: OpenPGP Crypto Functions on a Node API Server
some generic Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) primitive functions presented as API calls running on a Node https: server.
187. We Built an IDE to work with API Design. Here's What We Did
Hello there! Today is the day when we’re ready to present to the IT community TestMace, our IDE for API design. Some of you may know about it from the previous article. However, we haven’t yet provided you with an overall review of our tool, so here you go.
188. How to Build a Model Train Calculator the Right Way
Using Javascript to build a calculator for the cost of assembling model trains by combining API functions and a Wordpress site to streamline the process.
189. How To Use Velo API To Work with Forms
You can work with Forms using Velo APIs in 2 different ways: use the Wix Forms app and its APIs or create your own custom form
190. My Experience with GraphQL
191. 100 Days of AI Day 1: From Newsletter to Podcast, Leveraging AI for Audio Transformation
How to use the OpenAI API to convert your newsletter into a podcast. Part of the 100 Days of AI.
192. What is an API, Simply Explained
Connectivity is something amazing. Right now, we are used to use our computers or phones to buy, post, watch, etc. We can do lots of things actually. We are connected to the world and to each other.
193. ECommerce APIs: How to Set Up the WooCommerce API & Shopify API
Here you'll find out how to integrate well-known eCommerce APIs: Shopify and WooCommerce. With this guide, you'll be able to apply them to your online store.
194. How to Use Notion as a Content Management System (CMS) for Your Applications
Using Notion as a headless CMS for mobile and web applications
195. Using a REST API with Python
Requesting fitness data (backlog) from Terra requires HTTP requests, so I’m writing an essential guide here on using a REST API with Python.
196. An Intro to API Gateways for ChatGPT Plugins
OpenAI has recently launched a new version of ChatGPT which now allows plugins inside ChatGPT. These plugins can be added directly to the chatbot, providing it with access to a wide range of knowledge and information from its third-party partners through the APIs. ChatGPT plugins can extend its functionality and enhance its capabilities to access up-to-date information such as research travel costs, find out discount information, or help you book flights and order food. You can also build your own plugin that allows ChatGPT to call your API data intelligently.
197. All Types of POST Requests With API Tester
Post requests are the most common types of requests that we perform on the internet and it is very useful in our day-to-day work life.
198. The Hidden Pitfalls of APIs: XSS Attacks in Single Page Applications (SPA)
In our digital city, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) lurks like a shadowy corner. This sly security flaw can manipulate APIs, turning them into unwitting tools for
199. How to Architect Individual Throttles for Users and Tables in FastAPI
FastAPI has been instrumental to me in understanding backend engineering and thinking about processes and how stuff can and should work. It is an intelligent to
200. How I Built My Own Insomnia Plugin
Building your own custom Insomnia plugin is easy — you can add new functionality with just a few lines of code!
201. Let's Make An API And Sell It
APIs are in high demand. Making an API that companies want to use would be even better if you could sell it, too. This is how to do it with every step inside.
202. Connecting an Apigee Edge API Proxy with Auth0 Platform
In the step by step tutorial learn how to use external OAuth for authentication & Access token created by the external system to secure APIGEE edge
203. How to Build a QR Code Generator for Slack with Just 7 Lines of Code
Hey, remember QR Codes?
204. State of API Security: API Security Best Practices
The word is out about the state of API security as organizations around the world are finally waking up to the potential of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) transforming business models and directly generating revenues.
205. Top 4 Stock Market APIs Of 2021
Choosing the best stock market API can be difficult, here we breakdown the best 4 options in 2021
206. Creating a Webhook URL: A Guide for AWS, Heroku, and GCP
This article will provide a brief guide on creating a webhook URL in three popular cloud platforms: AWS, Heroku, and GCP.
207. How to Create a Simple Flask Application for Book Search
How one can make a simple single page Flask application using the free education API Gutendex to create a book search? Read on to know...
208. Secure Your NestJS App: How to Implement Authentication With Auth0
This guide will walk you through securing your NestJS app using Auth0.
209. Using Python to Refresh Tableau Dashboard
In most cases, Tableau tasks are scheduled to run at designated times, however, there may be occasions where the flexibility is not sufficient.
210. Mocha+Chai: Writing a reusable Test Suite for an expressjs/mongoose API
Here is a workable, reusable way to test an expressjs/mongoose application.
211. How to Circumvent API Rate Limiting
Learn more about API rate limit measures and discover how to circumvent API rate limiting.
212. GraphQL Doesn't Solve Under & Overfetching
When you look at positive articles about GraphQL, you often hear how much better it is than REST and how it solves the problem of overfetching, underfetching ..
213. What is API Observability?
APIs are the blood vessels of digital business.
214. Connecting Vue.js with OAuth Based API
I'm 99% sure that you've already used an OAuth based API.
215. Scaling Backend Development Teams
At its heart, scaling a team is about matching skills to problems. In this piece, we share a guide about scaling backend API software development teams
216. Where is Your Deep Object in the Query?
From version v3, the OpenApi standard brings another way to introduce query parameters via DeepObject.
217. Build a Lightweight REST API with Salesforce and Postman
Salesforce can expose custom-coded services to third-party applications, either as SOAP web services or REST APIs.
218. Exploring the Alchemy NFT API
It takes a lot of time and labor to go through each NFT smart contract to retrieve data. Different pre-built NFT APIs can be utilized to address this problem.
219. How to Stream Real-Time Heart Rate with WebSockets
How to use Websockets, to stream heart rate data in real-time.
220. Learn the Basics of the Ethereum JSON API in 5 Minutes
221. Why API Management and Service Mesh Are Complementary Patterns for Different Use Cases
Insights into the Differences Between API Gateways and Service Mesh
222. Introduction to gRPC Testing on a Real Project
n this story, I will demonstrate how to test a service that communicates through the gRPC framework on an actual project.
223. How to Create a Serverless API Using AWS Lambda and Node.js with TypeScript and Express.js
An example application using the Node.js with TypeScript and Express.js where a serverless API will be implemented and deployed on the AWS Lambda service.
224. The Top C# .NET Word API Libraries
Explore the top C# .NET Word API Libraries and their notable features for your applications in this review of leading options.
225. The Difference Between First-Party and Third-Party Oracles
Oracles are a way of getting data from source to another. Here is how both first-party and third-party oracles work in a blockchain and how that helps.
226. How To Connect Avalara’s AvaTax with Stripe Subscriptions
It’s supposed to be easy. Eventually, it is.
227. How to Write About Abstract Concepts
228. Grok Just Got a Voice (And It’s Cheaper Than Your OpenAI Bill)
The API is compatible with the OpenAI Realtime API specification.
229. Scaling to Infinity: Innovating the Worker Queue
When building applications, it's common to be coordinating frontends, databases, worker queues, and APIs. Traditionally, queues and APIs are kept separate; queues handle long-running or CPU intensive tasks and APIs serve quick responses to keep applications snappy.
230. How to Set up Custom Domain Names for AppSync
One thing that API Gateway supports but you can’t do with AppSync out-of-the-box yet is custom domain names.
231. Data Dashboards: Visualizing Metrics with n8n 📈
I use information from all over the internet. I visit hundreds of new web pages every day, both for personal and professional projects. It’s part of the process, and I’m happy to do it.
232. Implement real-time updates with Django REST Framework: Building Cryptocurrency API
It is time to create another cool project using Django and REST Framework.
233. How to Use Microservices on Heroku to Create a Random Board Game Generator
Why Microservices
234. How I Launch A Postwoman v1.0 👽: Free, Fast & Beautiful Alternative To Postman 🎉
So, here’s how Postwoman happened.
235. Sending Events and Logs to Discord via Python
How to Send your Events and Logs to Discord via Python
236. Creating API with Bash Code in AWS Lambda and API Gateway
Amazon web services (AWS) is a powerful platform for almost every webservice you can imagine. With AWS API Gateway and Lambda you are able to create REST API’s with ease! API gateway is enables you to create the API. Lambda lets you execute code when the API is invoked. This code can be in many programming languages like Python or Node.JS.
237. 13 API Metrics That Every Platform Team Should be Tracking
A list of the most important API metrics every API product manager and engineer should know, especially when you are looking into API analytics and reporting.
238. API Architecture Style: Differences Between REST API and GraphQL
The battle for the best API framework is a never-ending one. I will explain you the difference between two very popular and frequently used API frameworks.
239. Create LLM Playground in 10 minutes (with LiteLLM)
Today, we’re going to to create a playground to evaluate multiple LLM Providers in less than 10 minutes using LiteLLM.
240. 4 Data Management APIs for Better and Faster Innovation
241. How to Use Appsmith, Airtable, and Notion to Build a Video Sorting Tool
According to Forbes, 82% of content generated this year is likely to be video.
242. Filestack API — Everything You Need to Know
Filestack is a powerful API for file upload, transformation, and delivery.
243. How to Build a SMS Surveys App with Twilio, Airtable and Standard Library
We live in an era of collaboration and teamwork. Meaning that even the most straightforward task in this day and age (think ordering lunch, for example) is often brought before a committee vote. Thankfully, ours is also an era of great technological achievement, and there is perhaps no better way to arrive at a consensus than through the use of polling and surveys. Today we are going to see how we can use Build on Standard Library to deploy a quick and easy-to-use polling app that uses your Twilio number to dispatch SMS messages to your group, and then logs their replies in one convenient Airtable Base.
244. Component-based Website Development with React and the Cosmic JS CMS
A common approach to website development is to build components that can be reused across different web pages. The benefit to this approach is that you end up doing less duplicate work by managing the components rather than managing duplicate content across different pages. Popular JavaScript frameworks like React, Vue and Angular utilize this concept on the application code level to much success. How can we benefit from this approach on the content management level?
245. WTF is A Headless CMS? [Explained]
246. API for Beginners: Requests, Responses, Resources, and GET Explained with Code
For self-taught programmers, learning APIs will make you better than 90% of the other beginners. And, it is easy!
247. How to Automate Image Workflows With the Photoshop API
How to create a workflow to automate image optimization routines.
248. 7 Companies with Recipe APIs in 2022
An overview of 7 Companies with recipe APIs in 2022
249. Getting the Latest Content From Kontent.ai
For content that updates regularly in Kontent.ai, use the X-KC-Wait-For-Loading-New-Content header to ensure that your content is fresh
250. Breaking Free From Going Solo: Learning to Collaborate on API Development with Postman
Many API developers are familiar with Postman. Though I use it extensively for solo dev work, Postman brings a lot to the table for team API development.
251. The 6 Core Concepts for HTTP Caching
The 6 core concepts you need to know to understand HTTP caching.
Don’t want to spend hours and hours reading RFCs and documentation ? Read this guide instead!
252. Mastering APIs: A Complete Guide for Beginners
What actually are APIs and how do they work? Find out by looking at important APIs across the software stack and learn some computer science along the way!
253. Navigation Timing API: How to Track Your Website Loading Performance
The Navigation Timing API provides data that can be used to measure the performance of a web site. Unlike JavaScript-based libraries that have historically been used to collect similar information, the Navigation Timing API can be much more accurate and reliable.
254. I Used Python To Analyze My Peloton Workout Stats With Real-Time Updates
A tutorial on how you can sync and analyze your Peloton workout stats into Coda with custom dashboards. Sync with a Google Apps Script or serverless function on
255. The Realtime API Family [A Deep Dive]
Looking to 2020 and beyond, the proportion of data produced and consumed in realtime is growing exponentially. IDC predict that by 2025 1/3 of all data produced globally will be realtime.
256. Free API Solutions for Automated Google Search
OpenSERP that supports multiple search engines (Google, Yandex, Baidu), can be deployed on your hardware and helps you avoid being bound to a paid 3rd-party.
257. What’s the Difference Between APIs and Webhooks?
An API (Application Programming Interface) enables two-way communication between software applications driven by requests. A webhook is a lightweight API that powers one-way data sharing triggered by events.
258. Get ChatGPT to Focus on Coding on the Right APIs With Gptdoc Strings
A new way to focus ChatGPT coding sessions on the APIs you want to use.
259. Financial Data Aggregator Review: Zabo Vs. Yodlee Vs. Plaid
An in depth look at the leading financial data aggregators for fintech apps. We analyze Plaid vs Yodlee vs Zabo - advantages, disadvantages, pricing and more.
260. Asynchronous Javascript For Beginners
Asynchronous javascript is the backbone of modern web development. But understanding it comes with its challenges.
261. Data Management Patterns for Microservices Architecture
Microservices architecture patterns have highly transformed and streamlined the development process and have increased the performance of applications.
262. REST API Design Mistakes
REST principles are difficult to follow 100% of the time. However, avoiding the mistakes shared in this piece will make your API cleaner and easier to use.
263. You Should Use This for Your Next Project: Random Image API
264. A RESTful API Template Project for Developers
Building a RESTful API can be daunting for developers who have never done it before. That’s why we’re pleased to announce the RESTful API template project.
265. Passing and Returning Structured Datatypes to and From Go WebAssembly Module
We will write our guest application in Go, compile it to Wasm with TinyGo, and embed it with Wasmtime runtime into the host application, also written in Go.
266. Bridging AI and Blockchain: Developing a Plugin for ChatGPT
Discover the process of integrating OpenAI's ChatGPT with Ergo blockchain via a novel plugin, unlocking vast AI and blockchain synergies.
267. Setup a GraphQL API for a Firebase Realtime Database With StepZen
The Firebase Realtime Database is a NoSQL database in the cloud. It doesn't have a GraphQL API, but it has a REST API that you can convert with StepZen.
268. A Comprehensive Guide to API Versioning: Paths, Queries, and Headers
Explore three distinct API versioning methods - path, query, and header-based versioning - and gain insights into their implementation and best practices.
269. 10 Best Practices for Securing Your API
This is a brief blog on the Top 10 API security practices that can help users to keep their API safe from cyber attacks.
270. How To Create a Custom Webhook URL Using Autocode
TLDR (30s)
271. Understanding Service Discovery in Distributed Systems
An in-detail tutorial on how to create a Service Discovery in Python using Flask.
272. How to Fetch Data from APIs Using useEffect React Hook
In this article, we will take a look at useEffect React hook to fetch data from an API. We will create a sample React application to pull data from the provider and use it in our application.
273. Data Pipelines: OpenWeatherMap-Airflow [A How-To Guide]
In this article, we will learn how to develop ETL(Extract Transform Load) pipeline using Apache Airflow. Here are list of things that we will do in this article:
274. WebVTT API: Introduction to The Web Video Text Tracks Format
Web Video Text Tracks Format (WebVTT) is a format for displaying timed text tracks (such as subtitles or captions) using the <track> element. The primary purpose of WebVTT files is to add text overlays to a <video>. WebVTT is a text based format, which must be encoded using UTF-8. Where you can use spaces you can also use tabs. There is also a small
API available to represent and manage these tracks and the data needed
to perform the playback of the text at the correct times.
275. This Guide Makes Mastering HTML-to-PDF Generation a Breeze
Master HTML-to-PDF generation with modern tools like Playwright and Puppeteer. Explore a step-by-step guide to creating high-quality PDFs effortlessly.
276. Building Maintenance Mode for your API Gateway Using Terraform
In my previous blog post, I went through how to create a maintenance mode page for your application, and how to implement it using Terraform and github pages. But the website is just one part of an Application, and often there’s also a public (or private) API that also needs to have a maintenance mode. Let’s see how we can do that using Terraform on API Gateway.
277. Jython: The Love Child of Python and Java
Jython is an implementation of Python that runs on Java. For the most part, it is compatible with Python 2.7.
278. Web Fundamentals: WebVR API
Deprecated
This feature is no longer recommended. Though some browsers might still support it, it may have already been removed from the relevant web standards, may be in the process of being dropped, or may only be kept for compatibility purposes. Avoid using it, and update existing code if possible; see the compatibility table at the bottom of this page to guide your decision. Be aware that this feature may cease to work at any time.
279. Dive Into OpenAI's AI-Powered Application Ideas for Your Next Project
Some cool ideas to try out using the AI API provided by OpenAI.
280. 549 Stories To Learn About APIs
Learn everything you need to know about Api via these 549 free HackerNoon stories.
281. How to Convert Your API Documentation to an OpenAPI in Less Than 5 Minutes
Effortlessly convert API documentation to OpenAPI in under 5 minutes with this straightforward guide using Postman and Kevin Swiber's tool
282. UMA (User-Managed Access) 2.0: How It Works And What It Can Be Used For
User-Managed Access (UMA) is an OAuth-based access management protocol standard. Introduction to UMA and where it can be used.
283. How to Create an API Management Strategy?
An effective API management strategy enhances the developer experience, elevates software quality, lowers development expenses, and enables system scalability.
284. How to Build a Web App with ASP NET Core and Vue
In this article, I will teach you the basics of making your own web app, by creating a checklist app. ASP NET Core will be used to create a CRUD API and Vue will be used to create the frontend UI. Using the knowledge gained here, you should be able to apply it to start making your own web apps. You can find the complete solution in the GitHub repository.
285. APIs: The Prefabrication of Software
Whether it’s for building a company, monitoring the news, or even making a grocery list, software penetrates every part of the modern western lifestyle. The dem
286. How I Built A Conor McGregor Chatbot With ChatGPT
My short story about how I used ChatGPT's API to build a Conor McGregor chatbot on AskConor.com
287. A Guide to Composing and Integrating APIs Together
With React/Next.js, the fundamental problem you’re solving is that of turning some notion of ‘state’ into DOM, with a focus on composability
288. Python Tutorial: How to Make API Requests
Python is in the midst of a resurgence. It never went away, but usage now grows like never before. With machine learning developers and data scientists relying on Python, much of the web development ecosystem around the language continues to grow.
289. Bluesky's Free API Helps Me Curate My Top Posts Like Never Before
A comprehensive tutorial for software developers on retrieving liked Bluesky posts through the Bluesky API and embedding the posts in a markdown blog post.
290. Discover a Network of Malicious Domains on Your Own: DIY Guide — Holiday Season Edition
While threat hunting has become quite challenging, partly because of WHOIS data redaction, the DNS continues to provide clues.
291. Scrape And Compare eCommerce Products Using Proxy Scraper
In this post, we are going to learn web scraping with python. Using python we are going to Scrape websites like Walmart, eBay, and Amazon for the pricing of Microsoft Xbox One X 1TB Black Console. Using that scraper you would be able to scrape pricing for any product from these websites. As you know I like to make things pretty simple, for that, I will also be using a web scraper which will increase your scraping efficiency.
292. Frontend vs Backend: All the Differences Explained
With the evolution of technologies, both front-end and backend have evolved to a great extent. The difference between the two is what we are going to discuss.
293. What Are Webhooks and How to Hook Them up in Your Application
In the world of REST APIs, webhooks are saviors in knowing when an event has happened.
294. API Contract Drift - An Unsolved CI Problem
API contract drift is still poorly governed in CI. This story explores the gaps in schema change policy across OpenAPI, GraphQL, and Protobuf.
295. Going Beneath the GraphQL Federated API
Want to understand how GraphQL Federation works? Follow on
296. How To Build a Multilingual Text-to-Audio Converter With Python
Learn how to build a multilingual text-to-audio converter using Python. This guide covers essential libraries, techniques, and best practices
297. Using the Google Optical Character Recognition API
Every company is searching for a competitive advantage when conducting its business processes.
298. Automatically Redirecting Users to a Country-Specific Site
By automatically redirecting your users to their country-specific sites, you can boost your website and ensure a great user experience.
299. Converting TEX to PDF Using an API
This article presents a step-by-step tutorial with which you can convert your LaTeX source file to PDF by calling a JSON to PDF API to generate dynamic PDFs.
300. How To Connect Ruby on Rails API, PostgreSQL And Heroku
Creating a new Rails app is super easy by itself. And, creating a Rails app set up as an API is not much different.
301. Stick and Move: Strategies for Fighting Technical Debt
In the fast-paced world of software development, there is a fine line between “doing it fast,” and “doing it right.” Deadlines and time-to-market often dictate a pace that can lead engineering teams to implement features or code fixes in the easiest way possible. The benefit of this is that a product can release fast and entice users to their functionality before a competitor has the chance to usurp said prospective users. The downside, however, is a lurking foe that software teams often ignore to at their own peril: technical debt.
302. What’s Wrong With GraphQL?
While GraphQL offers several benefits, there are some potential disadvantages and challenges to using it in C# to consider, before you decide to implement it.
303. Validate Your APIs With Ease Using WuppieFuzz: Open Source Fuzzing for REST APIs
WuppieFuzz: A coverage-guided REST API fuzzer developed on top of LibAFL
304. How Much Is API Usage Really Worth?
Uncover the true value of API usage and its significance in driving business growth and innovation.
305. How to Radically Simplify Operations by Plugging Your API Gateway into an OpenAPI Spec
OpenAPI Spec — The blueprint for your API
306. API Development: Build a Predictive Machine Learning Site With React and Python (Part 2)
Sequel to the last article: We will be building a machine learning API that will predict whether a candidate will or will not be hired.
307. Using AWS API Gateway as a Load Balancer
TL;DR: yes, API Gateway can replace what a Load Balancer would usually provide, with a simpler interface and many more features on top of it. The downside is that it doesn’t come cheap.
308. Network Information API: How to Access Network Connection Speed Info
This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.
309. This TypeScript Predicate Generator Leaves Zod in the Dust
TypeScript code generation approach analyzed using a new predicate generation tool as an example.
310. 5 Major Factors Impacting the Evolution of APIs
In today’s world of ever-increasing digital interconnectivity, APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) have emerged as essential tools for integrating data efficiently and cost-effectively.
311. Go's New Experimental Packages: What to Know
This blog post is about Go 1.25’s new experimental encoding/json/v2 and encoding/json/jsontext packages, which bring long-awaited improvements and fixes.
312. Automate Designs with Bannerbear and n8n
As a designer and self-proclaimed data nerd, I’ve been involved in proceduralizing creative deliverables for some time. Up until now however, my concepts always had to reconcile with the limitations of InDesign macros or my coding skills. n8n empowers me to apply my basic understanding of data objects and the interwebs to create some pretty slick automations with minimal effort.
313. Unlocking SAP BusinessObjects Data: The Full Guide to Retrieving Documents with Python
This blog post delves into the world of SAP BusinessObjects and Python, demonstrating a step-by-step approach to retrieve a list of documents effortlessly.
314. How To Use Gulp And Prettier on Code Snippets and API Outputs
Code editors come with "beautifiers" which programmers can use to make code uniformly and conventionally laid out, aka: "pretty".
315. Breaking Down 3 API Security Breaches
The following three API security breaches provide helpful lessons for improving security today.
316. How to Look For Undocumented APIs
I designed a step-by-step tutorial on how to find and use undocumented APIs based on my experience doing it at The Markup...
317. Decoding APIs for Product Managers
A Product Manager and a Software Engineer walk into a bar.
318. What Frontend Engineers Should Know About Backend
The vast majority of things a frontend engineers need to do can be done without knowing anything about the backend other than the API. If you work on different parts of the frontend for long enough though, you'll probably run into something that does require some backend knowledge. Here's the short list of topics that a frontend engineer should know about the backend.
319. How to Scrape Large Datasets at Scale
Using Bright Data’s Web Scraper IDE to scrape datasets at scale using its ready-made functions and coding templates.
320. Monetizing APIs with WSO2 API Manager
Today APIs have become a key way for application developers to generate revenue, meaning monetisation is becoming a sought-after feature in the API Management space. Even though API monetisation has a broader meaning than simply charging for APIs; in our experience, most companies want to charge for API usage. There are a number of different ways that this can be achieved, but let’s take a look at the two most popular and how they can be effectively rolled out to bring in revenue.
321. All The Secrets Of Encrypting API Keys In Ruby Revealed
322. Full Stack for All
In the beginning, there were only full-stack developers. We implemented everything in the backend with some PHP or Ruby On Rails and then, with a bit of jQuery running in the frontend, we were done.
323. Open Banking and the Nigerian FinTech: Everything You Need to Know
By supporting incubators, accelerators, and other innovation hubs, Nigeria can create an environment that nurtures home-grown FinTechs...
324. Why You Shouldn't Use a Database as Your App’s Data Source
Most apps and APIs use databases as their data source and that is for a great reason. Databases have been designed to be scalable, resilient, and fully featured to support many types of use cases and scenarios.
325. Best Practices for API Security
Yet, its open doors and wide visibility makes it vulnerable to attacks. Also, attackers can easily find the way to the heart of applications and systems via APIs. Hence it is essential to fence APIs with all possible measures.
326. API Architecture: Components and Best Practices
While API Architecture and API Design are different, when it comes to securing them, both need to be kept in focus.
327. Answering Apache Cassandra FAQs
Here are some of the top things developers want to know about the highly scalable, reliable NoSQL data store Cassandra.
328. Beginners Guide to Fetch API
This is not the same average blog post you have seen on many sites. This is something new and amazing.
329. Why Appwrite 0.8 Is A Great Open-Source Firebase Alternative
Announcing Appwrite 0.8 with JWT authentication, ARM support, Anonymous Login, new storage capabilities and many more new features.
330. Introducing Jdict Module in Python
Providing attribute access to Python dictionary entries
331. How to Create an NFT Viewer With Infura's New NFT API
Viewing and managing digital collectibles (NFTs) can be a challenge for developers. In this tutorial, we walk through Infura's new API for viewing NFTs.
332. Explaining APIs To Your Grandma - A How-To Guide
If you’re a student studying Computer Science or someone who’s trying their luck getting into the software industry, one might often encounter the phrase API.
333. 21 API Monitoring Tools That Will Make You a Developer Superhero in 2023!
A new wave of API tools to answer the global API security threat.
334. A Guide to Delivering a Low-code API
This guide will take you through the steps to build and host an API using a low-code platform.
335. Great Tools To Help You Build an Awesome API
336. How to Create a Pronunciation Assessment App (Part 1)
The purpose of this tutorial is to create an application to control the user's pronunciation.
337. Building Advanced Forms and Custom Interactions with Velo: A How-To Guide
With Velo and Wix's custom input elements, you can make extremely sophisticated forms which can do almost anything you can imagine at a fraction of the cost.
338. REST API Tools Smackdown
Introduction
339. Leveraging Marqeta to Build a Payment Service in Spring Boot: A How-To Guide
After paying an Uber, John Vester decided to dig into the Marqeta API used for payment processing. Hours later, he created a fully functional Payment Service.
340. You Can't Guarantee Webhook Ordering, Here's Why
This post is about one of the topics we get asked about the most: guaranteeing webhook ordering.
341. Abstraction Layers and API's for Cloud Native Environments
342. Creating an Integration Platform That is Easy and Scalable
The good company interview - find out what is the origin story of ZigiWave, what is so great about the ZigiWave team and how to integrate multiple systems.
343. How To Create an API using Swift and Vapor
HELLO INTERNET. Calling all fellow iOS devs to start drinking backend with Swift. Our time is NOW 😈
Creating an API with Swift is here, and it’s juicy. Here’s what’s up.
344. Writing CRUD operations for a Swift API 🍭🍦
HELLO INTERNET.🍭🍦 In this video I go into creating CRUD endpoints for a Swift API !! 🖥
345. A Quick Introduction to REST API
REST stands for Representational State Transfer. It is a software architectural style that defines a set of constraints or rules that you should adhere to when you are creating your APIs.
346. How to Improve Django 3.1 View Performance with Async Support
Django 3.1 provides support for asynchronous views, allowing developers to make significant performance improvements.
347. Contract-First APIs: How OpenAPI Becomes Your Single Source of Truth
Learn how to auto-generate production-ready REST APIs and type-safe SDKs from OpenAPI specs using Maven and OpenAPI Generator.
348. How To Automate Conference Organization Processes Using n8n Workflows
Organizing conferences is hard. Recently, I was chatting with Nicolas Grenié about the manual processes that conference organizers have to deal with. The automation of these processes can save them time and effort as well as improve the conference experience. Inspired from this brainstorm, we ended up creating this tutorial using tools like n8n, Typeform, Bannerbear, Airtable, and Trello.
349. How To Connect SailsJS with GraphQL Guide
If you're having troubles with organizing API for the Node.js app, using the Sails.js framework with the GraphQL, know that you're not the only one - we've been there too.
350. Top Startups With the Best Designed Third-Party APIs
Do you wonder if third-party API integrations services are even beneficial for you? Read more to eliminate any doubts you have about the third-party API.
351. A Table as an API? Illusions and Reality
Discover why using a shared database table is an anti-pattern and how a ‘Contract First’ approach fosters clear ownership and smoother integration.
352. Automating SwaggerHub User Management with Azure AD, Microsoft Graph, and Azure Functions
How to automate SwaggerHub user management with a mixture of Microsoft services including Azure and Graph with an API to keep things simple for developers.
353. Intro Guide to the GraphQL API using Node.JS and Apollo
GraphQL is the alternative for REST made by Facebook. When Facebook reached the limits of REST API, they had to make something breaking these limits.
354. 33 Air Sensors, Zero Coding: Simple Plug-in Monitoring
Tired of Python scripts and drivers just to check your air quality sensor? Meet polluSensWeb—a browser-based tool that connects 33+ UART pollution sensors insta
355. How to Force Slack to Make Your User Appear Online
How to get the green dot to turn on for slack users with a headless browser because their API just won't allow it.
356. Creating RESTful Web APIs With Node.js And Express: You Can’t Mess Up The Right One
One of the main reasons for using Node.js is that you can create quickly RESTful web APIs with it. Express is a popular web framework helping you with this task. Using JavaScript to build servers is often a natural choice for frontend developers looking for a way to reuse their skills and create the APIs supporting their web app, but that's not the only benefit of using Node.js. The huge package ecosystem around Node.js and Express is what makes it shine, allowing to implement a lot of business features with very few lines of code.
357. Using APIs and vCards To Make Startup Swag Cool Again
Learn how we finally managed to find what we call swag market fit with our Startup Select cards and the process that we tried doing before that idea struck.
358. The Art and Science behind REST APIs
REST stands for REpresentational State Transfer
359. Database APIs vs Datasets: Weighing Benefits, Drawbacks, and Transition Strategies
Database API is a convenient way to get relevant data records whenever needed. Learn about the benefits, limitations, and common use cases.
360. DIY ChatGPT Plugin Connector
How I connected an external app to ChatGPT
361. How Slack Does Notifications and Does It Well
Slack is one app that Product Managers can learn a lot from because of its many integrations and malleable notification preferences.
362. Low-code: Solving the Dark Arts of API Deployment
Creating APIs may be easy, but maintenance and deployment is more often than not, time-consuming and difficult. But it doesn't have to be.
363. An API-First Approach For Designing Restful APIs
I’ve been working with Restful APIs for some time now and one thing that I love to do is to talk about APIs.
364. What is the Genuine Value of APIs
Application Program Interfaces-or APIs- are a huge part of the digital world that can even be used in blockchain. This is how it can act as digital glue.
365. Data Services for the Masses
I’ve held several roles in my career in IT, ranging from software developer to enterprise architect to developer advocate. I’ve always been fascinated by the role that data plays in our applications—putting it into databases, getting it back out quickly, making sure it remains accurate when transferred between systems. Many of the hardest problems I’ve encountered have centered around data. For example:
366. Everything You Need to Know About Web APIs
Understanding web application programming interfaces (APIs) is important for many jobs in the tech industry. Here are the basics.
367. Itinerary Planning APIs and Why We Need Them
Anybody who has ever used an API won’t question the benefits you get when using it and will probably notice the load of work it takes upon itself. The variety of APIs will fit any developer’s needs, so if you want your app to quote Marvel movies, there’s an API for that. But that’s a separate topic for discussion, because today we’re going to have a look at itinerary planners.
368. GraphQL vs REST: API Design Best Practices For Long-Running Operations
Some best practices for API design projects that are intended to work over the course of a long-term operation within a larger organisation using GraphQL
369. Debt APIs & Their Role in Financial Management
Debt APIs make impactful debt management and debt repayment possible. Although debt APIs work for multiple facets of loan and financial management.
370. The Ultimate Tutorial On How To Do Web Scraping
Mastering Web-Scraping like a boss. Data Extraction Tips & Insights, Use Cases, Challenges... Everything you need to know🔥
371. Back-end Data and API Prototyping with Faker.js and JSON-Server
Introduction
372. Using Rust For Monitoring 30k API Calls Per Minute
At Bearer, we are a polyglot engineering team. Both in spoken languages and programming languages. Our stack is made up of services written in Node.js, Ruby, Elixir, and a handful of others in addition to all the languages our agent library supports. Like most teams, we balance using the right tool for the job with using the right tool for the time.
373. QA Automation on vacation. How we developed a tool that creates test users for us
How SDG team developed a tool that automates the creation of "history-rich" test users.
374. Optimizing Database Operations With OpenTelemetry
Learn to use OpenTelemetry to monitor and identify the database issues in your application and remediate them to optimise your database operations quickly.
375. 10 Indications That You Should Invest in Automation Via APIs
Over the past decade, APIs have become essential for modern businesses and application development teams. They empower developers to easily add new features to their apps by facilitating connectivity with varied sources like databases, devices, or even other APIs.
376. Why Every API Needs a Clock
Limiting flow was fundamental to TCPs success, why is it any different for APIs?
377. Build a Go Web API with the New Digital Ocean App Platform: A How-To Guide
Recently, Digital Ocean announced they're entering the PaaS market with their new application platform. They've hosted virtual machines (droplets) and Kubernetes based services for years, but now they're creating a platform that's a simple point and click to get an application up and running.
378. The 'Cloud 100' is Pretty Much a List of APIs. Find out why.
Why (nearly) every company in the Forbes' Cloud 100 has a public application programming interface (API).
379. How To Use Amazon API Gateway to Decouple and Scale Serverless Architectures
One of the benefits of Serverless architectures is the possibility of scaling applications without worrying about load balancers and clusters of servers. While services like AWS Lambda hold their promises on this area, there are usually misconceptions about how they work.
380. Protecting APIs from DDoS Attacks
In a world where digital security is critical, the future of business is at risk from a range of different threats.
381. Webhooks Fun with n8n and Mattermost 🍸
Recently, I have been working a lot with webhooks and n8n. Webhooks have first-class support in n8n and can be used to enable powerful workflows. n8n is a fair-code licensed tool that helps you automate tasks, sync data between various sources, and react to events all via a visual workflow editor. In case you are not familiar with Mattermost, it is an open-source messaging alternative to Slack.
382. Why You Should Stop Writing Tests
A weblog about a different approach to automated testing by a senior dev who does not like writing tests.
383. A Detailed List of Wearable Data Accessible Through APIs Today
A comprehensive list of wearable data accessible through APIs today
384. What is Eventual Consistency and How Do You Deal with It?
Eventually consistency is a fancy name of doing something and only expecting the changed state after a while. But it won't work well with caching.
385. How Do APIs Provide a Foundation for Software Innovation
Get a comprehensive Guide about Application Programming Technology or API in a layman's language.
386. Implementing a Java Stream Collector
Java Stream's Collectors methods fit most use-cases. They allow returning either a Collection or a scalar. For the former, you use one of the toXXX() method, for the latter, one of the reducing() one.
387. Understanding WebRTC
What is WebRTC?
388. Are You Going API Crazy?
I’ve had an unusually high number of conversations about API strategy over recent weeks. Many of them get technical fast, faster than I’d like. But, great API strategies start without mention of APIs or technology, they (surprise, surprise) start with a conversation about the customer and your partners.
389. How to Send Emails in Node.js
In this article we will learn how to send email with node.js
390. Efficient File Uploads in Node.js: Using Express, MongoDB, and GridFS for Scalable Storage
Learn how to efficiently handle file uploads in Node.js using Express, MongoDB, and GridFS to ensure scalability, security, and seamless file management.
391. How You Can Build an API Client Library in JavaScript
Every time I find myself connecting to a third-party API that doesn't have a client library I have to create a lot of boilerplate around it:
392. What is a Service Mesh?
In our previous post on API Gateways we discussed how services handle external client to service (North-South) traffic.
393. How To Easily Integrate Twilio Into Your SaaS Startup [Part 2]
In the "Using Heroku to Quickly Build a Multi-Tenant SaaS Product" article, I documented the foundation for a new SaaS solution that I am building (initially for my sister-in-law) — utilizing the Heroku ecosystem. At the end of that article, I had planned to write about the core technologies (Spring Boot, Angular 9, ClearDB, Okta, GitLab and Heroku) in place, as we raced for the 1.0.0 release of the solution.
394. API Programming Doesn't Need To Be Hard
APIs, if you know how to tame and harness them, are a superpower. Choreo is a Cloud IDE that is built to make API creation, management, and composition a breeze
395. A Guide on Using the Cookie Store API
A look at an API that makes it easier to work with cookies in the browser.
396. Empowering Economies: The Role of Cross-Border Payments
The article looks into the importance of cross-border, digital banking and its effects to people in developing countries.
397. 14 APIs You Should Try Making JavaScript Projects With
14 𝗔𝗣𝗜𝘀 You Should Try Making JavaScript Projects With 🚀
398. Solving for Real ‘Real-Time’ API Monetization
The API Monetization Platform under consideration had an option of choosing between Pay-Per-Use (PPU), Pay-Fixed-Rate (PFR), lease-based, subscription-based and
399. Weather API Integration: 7 Key Issues Developers Must Know
A must-read article for all developers when integrating a weather API into your app, product or website. Maximize the potential of your weather data!
400. How & Why We Built a Git Workflow to Accelerate API Testing
With the release of ReadyAPI v3.3.0, our all-in-one collaborative API quality platform, the team here at SmartBear completed the first round of work on a rethought Git workflow – all available directly within the tool.
401. The Noonification: Getting Your API Into Production (10/28/2022)
10/28/2022: Top 5 stories on the Hackernoon homepage!
402. How To Monitor Your API Server
'Have you developed or are you in the process of creating an API Server that will be used on a production or cloud environment? In this 4th instalment of my Node JS Performance Optimizations series, I show you how to test the availability of your API Server, so that you can understand how many requests per second it can handle whilst performing heavy duty tasks.
403. Build a Java Backend that Connects with Salesforce
A discussion on how to implement Java and SFDC applications. Let's start talking!
404. The Secret To Brewing Up A Good API
What Makes a Good API? A good API does more than just taking input and returning output. It offers a few key items that make it enjoyable and easy to work with.
405. Date Math in JavaScript: The Hidden Trap You’ll Eventually Hit
A simple setMonth() call jumped from Jan 2024 to March 2023. Here’s the timezone overflow chain—and the fix with UTC and Temporal.
406. Coinbase Cloud Node & NFT APIs
Building upon his last publication, John Vester dives even deeper into Web3 by leveraging new tech by Coinbase Cloud to create a more functional dapp.
407. I Wrote a Library to Make Using localStorage Easier.
When I use localStorage, I find myself storing objects a lot and I want to have a simpler syntax. So I created a library called localStore.
408. What do You Need to Get Your Website Off the Ground?
The rise of technology trends has gathered in a way that to gain the attraction of a product or service a website seems to be essential to gain traction.
409. The Role of Bots in API Attacks
Currently, the total number of public and private APIs in use globally is estimated to be around 200 million. There is no way that attackers would miss them.
410. How Banking APIs Can Help Businesses Launch Quickly
Any company, be it a startup or an enterprise, that needs to collaborate with a legacy financial institution has several hurdles to overcome on the way.
411. What's the Deal With Data Engineers Anyway?
Learn the basics of data engineering with a practical ETL pipeline project. Explore how weather, flight, city data are extracted, transformed, loaded into a DB.
412. All the Firebase Functions you Need to Build Your Next Serverless Application
Build your own CRUD application by leveraging Firebase's Firestore JavaScript SDK.
413. Getting your Swift API Interacting With a MySQL Database 💾
Continuing our Swift backend takeover 😬 by configuring our API with a popular, powerful database MySQL 🖥
414. API DevEx Portals: A Definitive Guide
A definitive guide to building an API DevEx Portal for your API users.
415. Building A Custom Contact Center: Top Hacks From Telnyx
At Telnyx, we've always had a soft spot for the "do-it-yourself" approach. From kitting out our office spaces with custom-built dashboards and tooling, all the way to building our own global private IP communications network from the ground up, diving in and getting our hands dirty has given us a way of expressing ourselves and our problem-solving creativity, all the while helping us to operate and serve our customers more efficiently.
416. API Downtimes and Errors, How You Can Recover
APIs are stable until they aren’t. We talk about that often at Bearer. If you control the APIs, it gets easier, but with third-party APIs and integrations, it can be more difficult to predict when an outage or incident is about to happen.
417. 4 APIs Every Startup Should Know About
Your Startup is looking for ways to work more efficiently and improve your customer experience? This article shows you 4 APIs that can help you.
418. How to Make Composites Requests Against Salesforce
Journey into the Salesforce API and learn what composite requests bring to the table: reductions of API requests and help you avoid cyclomatic complexity issues
419. This Perplexity Embedding Model Understands Chunks in Context
Learn how pplx-embed-context-v1-0.6b creates context-aware chunk embeddings for RAG systems with int8 efficiency, 32K context, and late chunking.
420. Building API Integrations Like a Pro
Modern applications aren’t built in silos. They rely on the features of other applications. This reliance can come in the form of open-source libraries, access to a wealth of data, or complex features distilled down into a consumable API. Incorporating third-party dependencies into your own project can be challenging. It comes with the benefits of faster development, and the downside of reliance.
421. Improve API Performance by Using Debounce in JavaScript
Imagine your web application makes requests to an API endpoint and each request has a price, debouncing the request operation may save you a great deal of money
422. The Hacker Noon Leaderboard: Version One
At Hacker Noon, we measure success by the number and quality of words published on our platform. Previously, we were singularly focused on carving out a space for our contributing authors to publish long-form tech stories. We've hacked 2 commenting systems to enable readers to contribute words in response to those stories...but those words live stashed away in cardboard boxes in story basements.
423. A Simple Guide to API Development Tools
APIs can be as simple as 1 endpoint for use by 100s of users or as complex as the AWS APIs with 1000s of endpoints and 100s of thousands of users. Building them can mean spending a couple of hours using a low-code platform or months of work using a multitude of tools. Hosting them can be as simple as using one platform that does everything we need or as complex as setting up and managing ingress control, security, caching, failover, metrics, scaling etc.
424. Building AI Agents Doesn't Have to Be Rocket Science (Spoiler: It's Mostly API Calls)
Building AI agents isn’t as complex as it sounds. Learn how modern AI apps are mostly about smart API calls, streaming responses, and clean architecture
425. Movement DAO Earns a 708 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building a Move-Based Modular Framework
Movement DAO bridges EVM and MoveVM infrastructure to deliver Move-level security and scalability, earning a 708 Proof of Usefulness score.
426. How To Use Firebase Machine Learning Kit
There changed into a time when gaining knowledge of and enforcing device learning changed into no longer an smooth task. And if we talk about implementing the device getting to know inside the cellular devices then it turned into now not possible most effective due to the fact the execution of the heavy algorithm desires heigh computing power. But as we know, mobile generation has grown exponentially in the past few years.
Firebase is one of them. It has recently announced a new characteristic that's Firebase Machine Learning package. In this tutorial, I will explain everything approximately it in detail. I will also show you a way to Integrate the Firebase system getting to know package to your android app.
427. How to Design API Analytics Data Collection for High Volume APIs
API Analytics are key for any platform company that wants to gain insights into their API and platform usage. These insights can be leveraged by product owners, growth teams, developer relations, and more to make more strategic decisions based on the raw health of your platform business rather than just gut feelings. However, many API platforms have a very high volume of API calls per day. This volume creates a set of unique challenges when designing an analytics system that scales without crippling their platform or having sticker shock when looking at their cloud vendor’s bill. This post goes into some of the inner workings of how we designs Moesif’s API analytics platform to handle companies with billions of API calls a day.
428. How To Test API Requests Using Promises
Dealing with testing can be hard sometimes, especially if you’re not too experienced in javascript. So, if you’re learning how to deal with API and now you want to start with testing, this guide will help you with it.
429. Trends We Are Watching: API Democratization and API Management
If you’re a developer of any type of modern application, then you’re likely more than just familiar with APIs—you’re probably a power user.
430. Understanding APIs and How to Test Them
API (an abbreviation of Application Programming Interface) is a special interface (a set of commands/controls) that is designed for the interaction of different
431. API Automation: 5 Areas to Focus on
API automation goes beyond testing: here are 5 automation areas to focus on in your API program.
432. How to Fix Security Bugs Faster with curl Validation
Learn how to leverage the Validate Finding feature of StackHawk to find and fix security bugs faster.
433. Huihui-Qwen3.5-9B-Abliterated: What This Uncensored Model Does
This is a simplified guide to an AI model called Huihui-Qwen3.5-9B-abliterated [https://www.aimodels.fyi/models/huggingFace/huihui-qwen3.5-9b-abliterated-hui...
434. Help Users Determine Their Carbon Footprint With These APIs
Carbon footprint APIs help both companies and users to track and offset their carbon input while also help the community by supporting environmental projects.
435. APIOps: Combining DevOps and GitOps to Improve API Development
DevOps is where the rubber meets the road. In this article, understand APIOps and how the adoption of an API gateway impacts DevOps.
436. Why SDKs Are Important in the Development of Modern Applications
SDK is really popular today and it can save your money and time. How to choose it: read here and now.
437. API-as-a-Service is the Next Step in the Software World's Evolution
APIs are the foundational building blocks on which the software world is being built. What will the next wave of API-as-a-service winners look like?
438. A Prototype That Leverages Facial Expressions to Facilitate Non-vocal Communication
An introduction into some tools used to develop a facial expression detector as a means to communicate.
439. Meet Lob
Automate direct mail (letters, postcards, checks, and more) at scale with our direct mail APIs & on-dmeand print delivery network.
440. How to Mail Your Holiday Cards Programmatically
Forget pens or stamps—Mail your holiday cards programmatically
441. API Security Testing Based on Schema: Highs and Lows
We will delve into the world of API security testing, with a focus on Swagger, a popular and widely used API documentation and management tool.
442. APIs for Beginners: What They Are and How They Work
A beginner's guide to what an API is, what frontend, backend, server, and JSON are, and how communication between programs happens over the Internet.
443. What Developers Mean When They Talk About API
API has become one of those catch-all terms that developers throw around without really considering the context. On any given week, you will come across discussions like "How to use the Twitter API", "New framework X is great because it has a low API surface", and "Best practices for building an API."
444. How Important is the API Economy for Blockchain Application Development?
445. Postman Alternative: Firecamp - Lightweight and Minimal API Testing Client
Firecamp - Get instant API playgrounds to test Rest, GraphQL, WebSocket and SocketIO APIs
446. The Overhyped Fall of Reddit
Reddit crisis sparks protest over controversial pricing policy, misinformation fuels panic.
447. How to Harness the Power of APIs for Your Projects
Imagine LEGO blocks that need help to create something amazing. APIs make them fit together!
448. Why Google Calendar Sync Is Hard (and What Tokens Have to Do With It)
What looks like a simple API integration can take weeks to implement properly.
449. Book Rating System From Scratch using Goodreads API and Slash GraphQL
GraphQL is a relatively new way to build user interfaces and APIs for consumers. It's essentially a querying language backed by a strongly typed schema, which makes it easy to write human-readable requests to get exactly the data you need. Compared to REST, whose responses are dictated by the server, GraphQL queries place the power squarely in the hands of the client.
450. The Establishment of Decentralized Application Programming Interface (DAPI) and Blockchain Oracles
How the emergence of Decentralized API (DAPI) and blockchain oracle is revolutionizing the off-chain and on-chain data transmission
451. Using Rainforest API With WordPress [A How-To Guide]
Rainforest API is an alternative to the Amazon Product API provided to Amazon Associates. If you are thiking of building shopping comparisson sites with Amazon links and you don’t have an API key, or if you want to build a lot of pages very quickly without limitation, using Rainforest API is the answer. If you are serious about earning money as an Amazon Affiliate and want to make thousands of pages, do yourself a favor and start the project off right.
452. If You Want To Write The 1st API Test In JavaScript You Can Be Proud Of, Read These Tips
In this post, we'll take a look at what tools/technologies do we need for writing API tests using JavaScript and then we'll also write our first API test. So let's get started...
453. Building an API-Powered Platform
On this episode. Jon Dahl, CEO of Mux, and Thierry Schellenbach, CEO of Stream, talk to Amy Tom about starting their API-powered platform.
454. From Prompt to Operations: The Real Shift in AI Website Building
Instead of treating AI as a one-shot page creator, systems like 10Web’s Agentic Website Builder are replicating the coordinated workflow of a full web team
455. Generate Multi-Angle Product Photos at Scale With a 96-Pose Camera LoRA
Learn how to “move the camera” in image edits: 96 viewpoints, smooth transitions, and -30° low-angle shots using Qwen-Image-Edit-2511 Multiple Angles LoRA.
456. Using an API to Return a Daily Poem in Telegram to Celebrate World Poetry Day
Learn how to create an automated workflow with n8n that gets international poems, translates them into one language, and sends a poem in Telegram every day.
457. How To Make A Cost Effective API Serverless Infrastructures
AWS API Gateway is a great service but can be quite expensive, and even cost-prohibitive in some cases.
458. Spring Boot Quick Start: Spring Boot Tutorial for Beginners
How to create spring boot application using Spring Initializr and creating spring boot rest api example
459. Best Shopify Scaler APIs 2026: The Definitive Deep-Dive for High-Growth Commerce
The definitive 2026 guide to Shopify scaler APIs. Lomit Patel breaks down the Catalog API, Functions, Prediko AI, and Agentic Commerce for high-growth brands.
460. Vue Lifecycle Hooks Explained
Vue uses lifecycle hooks to let us call certain pieces of code at different times during the component mounting process. Let's look at how it all works.
461. How a Data Privacy Vault Protects PHI for Healthtech Users
With healthcare apps and wearables that gather customer PHI, healthtech companies need a data privacy vault to ensure HIPAA compliance and build customer trust.
462. MCP vs API: The Key Difference Between Human and Machine Communication
Let's learn how MCP differs from traditional APIs and how it safely allows AI models to communicate with the real world.
463. Filestack And Other OCR APIs
OCR software enables the digitization of essential data in paper documents and photographs.
464. Tips for Developers to Survive API-First
The world of API-First has swept developer marketing by storm. Learn some tips to get a grip on this trend and avoid being blindsided!
465. You Don't Have a Prompt Problem. You Have a Context Problem.
Why LLMs collapse on email threads, recursive conversations, and unstructured communication—and what a context-first architecture looks like in practice.
466. How to Keep API Keys Out of GitHub Repositories
When you upload your Android app on GitHub, you need to hide it as no one has access to it except you. It is considered a security glitch, so that’s why it ...
467. Why It's Worth Investing In An API Integration Platform
Get to know why API integration platforms are a must for B2B SaaS apps to be competitive on the market.
468. Why You Should Consider Low-Code Approach to Building a REST API
APIs have been around for decades – they allow different systems to talk to each other in a seamless, fast fashion – yet it’s been during the past decade that this technology has become a significant force.
So then why all the interest in APIs? We all know the usual stories – Uber, Airbnb, Apple Pay… the list goes on, and the reasons are plentiful. Today the question is, how? Perhaps you are looking to differentiate your business or want a first-mover advantage. How can you execute quickly and at low cost/risk to try new market offerings?
An API provides several benefits to an organisation, but without a dedicated team of trained developers, it might seem like an implausible option. Developers are expensive, and it can take months to develop an API from the ground up. If you don’t fancy outsourcing or have the capability in house to build internal APIs, a low-code platform might just be the answer.
469. How to Build a Simple Telegram Bot: An Introductory Guide
This article demonstrates how to create a simple chatbot in Telegram and configuring it using Quickwork Journey Builder.
470. Two Tools, 56 APIs: How I Built a Universal MCP Server
471. The API You Built On Could Kill You in 2025—Time to Find the Exit
The biggest threat to your startup isn’t competition, but the infrastructure you’ve built it on.
472. 5 Ways to Add Security to Excel & PDF with .NET Document APIs
Learn how GcExcel helps to ensure your application’s code security in these 5 ways!
473. Need Web Data? Here Are the 3 Methods Everyone’s Using
Discover the three best, most modern methods to access and harness web data for your projects.
474. 10 Threats to an Open API Ecosystem
Despite tight economic situations worldwide, the API economy continues to grow.
475. The API Connectivity Problem: Connecting Off-Chain Businesses
APIs make up the backbone of many web apps and much of the internet cannot work without of them. However, the Blockchain is not compatible with APIs, a problem.
476. Visualizing The Data: Spotify Data for Favorite Artists Over Time
How do your favorite artists change over time? This is the story of how I visualized my favorite artists from Spotify in a Plotly chart using Python.
477. How to Build Your First NodeJS Server with ExpressJS
Initialize the project:
478. One API to Rule Them All? Examining the Ubiquity API for Blockchain Protocol Management
One of the great strengths of the blockchain sector is the vast multitude, and ever-increasing number of protocols in existence. These protocols offer incredible diversity in the functions and use cases that they deliver for developers and enterprises alike, with particular strengths and weaknesses inherent to particular blockchains.
479. A Guide on How to Save Credits in Perplexity Computer: I Tested It So You Don't Have to
Learn how to save credits in Perplexity Computer, avoid costly loops, track usage, and use the tool for the workflows that actually justify the burn....
480. The HTTP Status Codes You Need to Know
481. Designing and Developing the Integration of Your Online Shopping Store
WSO2 Integration Studio is a development environment for designing, developing, debugging, and testing integration solutions.
482. Build an API using Ballerina
Ballerina language is the latest cloud-native programming language that supports building backend applications and integration workflows easily.
483. How To Leverage The Salesforce API Without The Salesforce Client
Interested in using Salesforce with your own client application? Learn how to use Spring Boot to accomplish this need, caching data along the way.
484. Stripe Vs. Braintree Vs. PayPal: Which Is The Best Payment Platform?
Online payment platforms have changed the way we shop every day. With the help of such payment platforms, we can easily send and receive without going to the bank.
485. The Noon Notification—Monday 10 February, 2020
The best tech stories published on hackernoon.com in the last 48 hours. Sign up for the newsletter today.
486. The Translation Revolution: How LLMs Are Cutting 90% of Translation Costs
LLM-based translation services are revolutionizing the industry, offering cost savings of up to 90% while delivering superior accuracy and nuanced results.
487. Finding the Best Chat API: Should You Develop Your Own or Use a Third-Party Solution?
When searching for the best chat API, there are pros and cons to building your own or paying for a third-party solution, and we'll help you decide what is best.
488. Streamlining Python Interfaces: Tips for Concise and Clean Code
489. APIs to Foster Loyalty in Your Customers
Loyalty programs enhance business operations in multiple ways.
490. How To Use The Requests Python Library To Make An API Call And Save It As A Pandas Dataframe
Working with YouTube Python API to collect video statistics using the requests python library to make an API call and save it as a Pandas DataFrame.
491. 54% of Developers Cite Lack of Documentation as the Top Obstacle to Consuming APIs
Recently, I worked with my team at Postman to field the 2020 State of the API survey and report. We’re insanely grateful to the folks who participated—more than 13,500 developers and other professionals took the survey, helping make this the largest and most comprehensive survey in the industry. (Seriously folks, thank you!) Curious what we learned? Here are a few insights in areas that you might find interesting:
492. Reverse-Engineering Zomato Food Rescue: MQTT, Server-Driven UI, and a Headless Monitor
How I intercepted Zomato's Android traffic, found MQTT credentials in plain JSON, and built a real-time monitor to win Food Rescue before anyone else.
493. The Tyk Side Project Fund is open for applications
Tyk's micro-grant program is now accepting applications! Get a chance to receive a £500 grant to help advance your side project.
494. How to Use Python to Publish an Article to Dev.to
I developed a Python script that automates the process of publishing directly to DEV
495. How to Write API Documentation the Right Way
API documentation is a critical part of any application's success.
496. Streamlining The Developer Onboarding Process: A How-To Guide
For new hires, the first day on the job can be rough. Here's how Prismatic approaches building a successful software development team from day one.
497. Build Your First API Server From Scratch With JAVA and Minikube
With this article, you may build your simple API server on JAVA
without super-knowledge, and deploy it on minikube automatically with scripts.
498. My Cat, FastAPI and a Template
I really liked FastAPI. So, I decided to read all its docs, and instead of having study notes, memos, or whatever, I wrote it all as a template
499. How We Delivered New Services Without Building New Services
Our API serves more than 300 million API calls per year. We used an open source integration platform to deliver new services without building from scratch.
500. Introduction to GraphQL
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