When talking about API integration, the matter of API rate limiting is unavoidable. Researching what the rate limits of the APIs you’re going to ‘consume’ in your integrations are should be part of your overall preparation for the development of your project scope. It is also a crucial detail to know when you will be designing your integrations; rate limits will define early on what mechanism you need to implement to avoid hitting them in the first place.

Tech leaders debate why SQL is the lingua franca of data analysis, the unbundling and rebundling of software and emerging trends in data governance within the modern data stack space.

HTTP Keep-Alive is a feature of web servers that allows clients to keep connections open. It's also called "persistent connections." The idea behind HTTP Keep-Alive is to prevent the connection from timing out and closing, which would require the client to reconnect. This saves time for both users and the website’s server. HTTP/1.1 is designed to allow keep-alive connections by default, but HTTP/1.0 is not.

Over the last ten years, APIs have grown in popularity and utilization. They've evolved into critical components of application infrastructure, and as businesses continue to use and build them, good API architecture will become increasingly important. A smart API design helps performance and the overall developer experience, whether they're public or internal. The most common APIs employ HTTP requests to access and use data and follow a RESTful architecture.