Behavior-Driven RESTful APIs

In the RESTBucks example, the authors present a useful state diagram that describes the actions a client can perform against…

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RESTBucks Evolved

The book REST in Practice: Hypermedia and Systems Architecture uses an imaginary StarBucks-like company as its running example. I think…

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REST Maturity

In 2008, Leonard Richardson published his Maturity Heuristic that classified web services into three levels based on their use of…

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Managers and Individual Contributors in Code

I’m lucky to work for a company that makes it possible to have a good technical career, so that I…

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Conway’s Game of Life and the Flyweight Pattern

Conway’s Game of Life is fascinating, both from a functional and from a technical perspective. This may explain why it’s…

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The Decorator Pattern

The Decorator Pattern One design pattern that I don’t see being used very often is Decorator. I’m not sure why this…

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Communicate Through Stories Rather Than Tasks

Communicate Through Stories Rather Than Tasks Last time I talked about interfaces between pieces of code. Today I want to discuss…

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REST 101 For Developers

Local Code Execution Functions in high-level languages like C are compiled into procedures in assembly. They add a level of…

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How To Start With Software Security – Part 2

Last time, I wrote about how an organization can get started with software security. Today I will look at how…

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