It’s no secret that I rather enjoy connecting things to the Internet for fun and profit. One of the tricks I’ve learned along the way is to spin up simple APIs that can be used when prototyping a ...

Yes, sometimes you need sophisticated libraries that handle HTTP requests asynchronously, but in other situations that can be overkill. An old Internet Explorer API may have a solution. I've written ...

The Brave Search API is now live. The service is free for companies and developers for limited use but also offers several paid tiers for those who have more demanding requirements. Brave Software has ...

An API gateway decouples clients from services, simplifying life for service developers and consumers. It can also provide additional benefits such as monitoring, logging, security, and load balancing ...

Google introduced the Knowledge Graph in 2012 to help searchers discover new information quicker. Essentially, users can search for places, people, companies, and products and find instant results ...

ASP.NET Core 6 introduces a simplified hosting model that allows us to build lightweight APIs with minimal dependencies. We have discussed getting started with minimal APIs, using logging and ...