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From checking bank balances to ordering takeout, the apps used every day are dependent on APIs. According to the international API experts at Nordic APIs, it’s estimated that around 80% of internet ...

Application programming interfaces have become a favorite target for attackers. These tools and platforms (both commercial and open source) will help identify errors, vulnerabilities, and excessive ...

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

What are blockchain APIs, and why are they important? Blockchain APIs, or application programming interfaces, are software interfaces that allow developers to interact with a blockchain network. Users ...

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 ...

ASP.NET Core offers a simplified hosting model, called minimal APIs, that allows us to build lightweight APIs with minimal dependencies. We’ve discussed minimal APIs in several earlier posts here.

It’s easy to secure minimal API endpoints in ASP.NET Core using JSON Web Tokens for authentication and authorization. Just follow these steps. ASP.NET Core offers a simplified hosting model, called ...

Application programming interfaces enable information systems to communicate and transfer data among each other. Depending how it is configured, an API can enable a system to send or retrieve data ...