Web services are all the rage in development circles, but full-featured application servers like JBoss are terrible overkill for small system solutions. In many situations, simple RESTful interfaces ...

I wrote an earlier article about implementing HATEOAS in Web Services as a way of reducing documentation. In the comments to that article, a reader suggested that, if I really wanted to reduce ...

ASP.Net Web API is a lightweight framework used for building stateless HTTP services. You can use Web API to design and implement RESTful services that run on HTTP. REST is an architectural style — a ...

The HTTP verb named PATCH can be used for partial updates, i.e., when you would like to update just a few fields of a resource. While you could update a resource “partially” using HTTP PUT, by sending ...

Web developers looking for a performance boost in ASP.NET 7 Web API projects can pick some low-hanging fruit by using caching. Caching is used to store frequently used data or information in local ...