API

The other day I blurted this out on Twitter:

Imagine that you just bought a new Play Station and you go to set it up. What do you do first? You just need to follow the steps detailed in the manual. Your Play station is ready to play your favorite games. Just like how a device manual guides you…

In the digital age, data has become one of the most valuable assets for businesses and individuals alike. With the vast amount of information available on the internet, web scraping is becoming an increasingly popular technique for extracting data from websites automatically. …

In this post, I will show how to create an API using .NET. This article is for anyone just getting into .NET development, who is a complete beginner. You do not need to have any previous .NET experience to follow along in this article but it will be good if…

Prerequisites: Rails 7.0.4.3, Ruby 3.2.1 (author: Yilun C. & Tiger Hill development team) This is a pretty (borderline excessively) detailed guide to help you set up a fully-rounded development environment for a Rails 7 app in API mode. This can be puzzled within days, but I want to save you…

Introduction In the world of container orchestration, Kubernetes has emerged as a dominant force. It provides a robust platform for deploying, scaling, and managing containerized applications. While Kubernetes excels at managing stateless applications, it also offers powerful abstractions for running stateful applications. One such abstraction is the StatefulSet, which enables the…

What are Managed dAPIs? One of crypto’s core mantras is “Don’t trust, verify.” In the rapidly evolving landscape of the Web3 data economy, finding reliable and transparent ways to connect real-time market data with smart contracts has become paramount. Decentralized APIs (dAPIs) are first-party data feeds that link API providers directly to oracle smart…

Introduction As a developer, I am constantly exploring tools that enhance my productivity and efficiency. Among the array of options available, Postman has emerged as an invaluable asset in my development journey. While Postman offers a host of impressive features, two components have truly revolutionized the way I approach API testing…

The API economy, a burgeoning segment of the digital marketplace, continues to rise in influence and pervasiveness. APIs, or Application Programming Interfaces, are the glue between disparate software applications, enabling them to interact and share data. First, it’s Think about the utility of these tools. …