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OData vs REST: What You Need to Know

When two different software applications want to join forces by sharing information, it’s not always a perfect union. Different database structures, programming languages, and network protocols tend to complicate the process. When reading about the various API technologies, you’ve probably come across two terms, OData vs REST, and wondered, “what’s the difference?” It turns out that OData vs. REST are two closely related concepts.

Top 10 API Integration Platforms

Nowadays, businesses need to integrate with various applications and services to streamline operations and improve customer experience. Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) play an important role in enabling this integration by letting different software systems to communicate and share data. API integration platforms are the key to maximizing the potential of your APIs.

What Is API Security? 7 API Security Practices

Application Programming Interface (API) security is the practice of protecting APIs from attacks. Like databases, servers, and networks, APIs are susceptible to attacks from hackers looking to gain access to sensitive data. Since APIs are more commonly used — to the extent that they’ve become a fundamental part of modern applications — they’ve become a popular target for hackers.

The 10 Best API Integration Tools, Platforms, and Software (easy to use)

Application Programming Interface (API) is a set of rules or protocols that allows one software application to interact with another. An API integration tool is a software that facilitates the ‘talk’ or communication and data sharing between different software systems and applications. While manual API integration is possible, utilizing API integration tools enhances the efficiency and reliability of this process.

Demystifying Explicitly built modules for Xcode

One of the new features of Xcode 16 is called "explicitly built modules". Behind this abstract name is something that makes builds faster and compiler errors more informative. As this is enabled by default for C and Objective-C code, you can experience some of the benefits instantly, but it can also be enabled for Swift code as an experimental feature. In this post, we'll explore how this feature works and the benefits it brings to projects that adopt it.

Open, Interoperable Storage with Iceberg Tables, Now Generally Available

Thousands of customers have worked with Snowflake to cost-effectively build a secure data foundation as they look to solve a growing variety of business problems with more data. Increasingly customers are looking to expand that powerful foundation to a broader set of data across their enterprise.

Effective Swift Error Handling Techniques for iOS Developers

As programmers we know that, despite our best efforts, we’ll never be able to completely eliminate errors from our apps. The sheer complexity of modern apps, not least the reliance on dynamic (often third-party) inputs, means errors are inevitable and error handling (exception handling) is crucial to user experience.