Despite REST's position as the de facto standard in web services development, it's not without some shortcomings. Data exchange formats can be bloated, and it lacks standards for API documentation and ...

Thanks to the technology behind ChatGPT, it’s become surprisingly simple to query a data set in plain English. As with most generative AI, results from OpenAI’s API are still imperfect, which means ...

Setting up authentication and access control in Spring Security is painstaking, but you can draw on very powerful capabilities. Here’s how to get started. Securing web applications is an inherently ...

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

I'm not asking how to detect duplicate POST requests. I'm asking if we are supposed to. According to RFC 2616 (section 9.5), POST is used to submit some sort of record/resource/data to the server ...