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Data Contracts

API Spezifikationen, aber für Datensätze

gRPC

One of the main tasks that business sets for IT as an industry is the creation of effective software, according to criteria that clearly meet the needs of this business. On the other side, one of the main prerequisites for achieving the goals that a business sets for itself is the ability to hire specialists who can create a product in the shortest possible time and/or effectively maintain it. Accordingly, to achieve this, the technology stack used, i.e. tools, must be mature enough, and widely used in the market.

Article

API gut, alles gut

Schnittstellen für unabhängige Systeme

Blog Post

Rate Limiting with Spring Boot

Let’s implement rate-limiting protection for your Spring Boot server without the need for any additional dependencies beyond those included in the Spring Boot Starter package.

Blog Post

Compacted State Feeds

Event notification vs. Event-carried State Transfer vs. Delta loads. How to design good event architectures for mutable data?

Blog Post

Clientseitige Speichertechnologien im Browser

Article

HTTP Feeds

Asynchronous interfaces don’t always require the use of Apache Kafka or RabbitMQ. They can also be designed without middleware just by means of HTTP APIs.

Podcast

API-Stile

Wie und womit baut man ein gutes API?

Article

Pragmatic RESTful HAL APIs

Kitchen Tricks and Tips

Blog Post

Why RESTful communication between microservices can be perfectly fine

Recent debates about REST versus message passing in microservice communication have led to some confusion. What is meant with asynchronous communication in this context and why is REST a perfectly valid choice?

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Praktikumsbericht „Web Discoverable Hypermedia“

Nachfolgend ein Erfahrungsbericht von Valentin Pratz (15), der mit Bravour ein zweiwöchiges Schülerpraktikum bei innoQ absolviert hat.

Podcast

REST und HTTP

Die dritte Auflage ist endlich da!

Blog Post

Declarative HTTP API Testing with gabbi

While HTTP APIs are ubiquitous these days, testing and documenting such APIs remains somewhat awkward: Tests usually consist of procedural code that is specific to the respective language or even framework - which is neither very expressive nor easy to maintain.