The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. A new product will establish the graph-based industry standard for secure, orchestrated access to APIs ...

AI, or artificial intelligence, is technology that attempts to simulate human cognitive function. AI has made its way into the software development space in a number of ways. Visit the AI article list ...

Learn how the open standard for querying data is different from REST and Swagger, and how you can use it to build more flexible and responsive APIs. When most software developers think of web APIs, we ...

Think of a REST API like a waiter in a restaurant. You (an app) tell the waiter what you want (your request), and the waiter goes to the kitchen (the server) to get it for you. REST is just a set of ...

GraphQL seems to be spreading like wildfire, and there's a reason for that. As REST APIs are proliferating, the promise of accessing them all through a single query language and hub, which is what ...

GraphQL lets you create data access services without writing controllers. Instead of writing procedural code, you declare schemas describing what queries you'll accept and what you're willing to ...