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I recently had the change to speak with Dimitri Sirota, the Chief Strategy Officer ands co-founder of Layer 7—recently acquired by leading IT acceleration company CA Technologies—about the role of API ...

Application programming interfaces allow for the linking of databases and the sharing of data across apps. With APIs, two applications can communicate with each other without understanding how the ...

Python’s convenience and versatility mean that it’s used to build software in nearly every walk of IT life. One major niche is web services, where Python’s speed of development and flexible metaphors ...

Visual Studio 2013 came with a new version of Web API. The Web API 2.1 update includes a host of new features, including support for Binary JSON. Learn how to leverage BSON by building a Web API 2.1 ...

Take a quick look at three Web framework technologies from the Python community. What with all the hoopla surrounding Ruby on Rails, aspiring Web application programmers should be forgiven for ...

My book Art of Java Web Development covers several different Model 2 web frameworks. One of the frameworks is Cocoon. Cocoon is more than one type of framework. It provides some of the same facilities ...

Although Python is not as prevalent as, say, PHP as a language for Web applications, Python nevertheless has much to recommend it in that effort. It is a dynamic, interpreted language, as is PHP, and ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Client-side JavaScript frameworks are all the rage, but they aren’t always the right answer if ...