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Build .NET apps for the metaverse with StereoKit
Microsoft’s open source mixed-reality tools make it easy to build OpenXR apps in .NET.
Visualizing the Hacker News API with HCL and SQL
Use Steampipe and GitHub Actions to create a ‘dashboard as code’ for exploring thousands of Hacker News stories, right up to the current hour.
India opens up its digital payments systems and other key tech
India Stack, which started with a digital identity project in 2010 under the name Aadhaar, offers several open APIs for paperless and cashless service delivery.
5 tips for writing better API documentation
Great API documentation is essential to a good developer experience. But your documentation should be great for non-developers too.
Using Azure Communication Services for email
Microsoft’s Azure multichannel communications APIs get support for email.
12 free tools for API design, development, and testing
These free and free-tier services and open source utilities will have your APIs up and running in no time, and will keep them running smoothly.
Tired of searching Slack, GitHub, and Google Drive separately? Do it all at once in SQL
When APIs are automatically database tables, it’s easy to combine search results from diverse APIs.
How API gateways complement ESBs
Customer-obsessed organizations should introduce API gateways alongside enterprise service buses to optimize service connectivity. Here’s how.
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What is JPA? Introduction to Java persistence
Get to know the Java persistence standard based on Hibernate and learn how to use JPA to store and manage Java objects in a relational or NoSQL database.
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What is JDBC? Introduction to Java Database Connectivity
Get an overview of JDBC's architecture, then learn how to connect to a database and handle SQL queries and responses with PreparedStatements, transactions, connection pooling, and more.
Cloudflare Workers for Platforms aims for more programmable web
Cloudflare Workers for Platforms provides a set of tools and an API standard that would allow developers to customize any web application.
WSO2 launches low-code, cloud-native PaaS for API development
WSO2 Choreo offers a graphical, low-code development environment for building cloud-native APIs, integrations, and microservices, featuring built-in CI/CD and observability.
How SQL can unify access to APIs
PostgreSQL foreign data wrappers are a great way to expose APIs to SQL. And SQL is a great way to reason over the data.
Mulesoft updates Anypoint to streamline API management, support devops
Mulesoft says that its latest Anypoint updates allow enterprises to create and orchestrate the deployment of APIs of any origin, in any architecture or environment.
Build on Excel using the Microsoft Graph API
Excel apps are everywhere. Thanks to Microsoft Graph, we can build them into our web and mobile applications.
Get started with FastAPI
Take advantage of the FastAPI web framework and Python to quickly create snappy, OpenAPI-compliant, web APIs — and full websites, too.
The benefits of API and service virtualization
Virtualization of APIs and application services supports robust and earlier testing, an important part of application modernization.
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