Over the years I've used about 20 different web application frameworks (tool-kits for making server-side applications), contributed to a few, and maintained a couple of popular ones. I've got a bit of a theory that many developers are introduced to new methodologies as and when their framework deliver it to them. Whilst this might sound like cargo-cult culture, I get it, developers are busy people. User manuals showing how to do DDD, TDD, Event Sourcing, or whatever, is much easier to understa

Recently I wrote GraphQL vs REST: Overview, giving a hype-free outline of the differences between REST and GraphQL. One section that would not have fit into that already lengthy article was caching, so I thought I'd fire that out next. Comparing how caching is used for the two approaches is tricky, because despite common opinion, REST has nothing to do with HTTP. REST is usually implemented in HTTP, therefore when most folks talk about "caching in REST", they are really talking about caching w

A hosted REST-API ready to respond to your AJAX requests

In this article, Stefan Tilkov explains some of the most common anti-patterns found in applications that claim to follow a "RESTful" design and suggests ways to avoid them.