server Servers, Requests, and Responses If you are new to web development you probably hear terms like servers and requests bandied about. Server is probably the more confusing of the term since it gets conflated with physical hardware, i.e. computers sitting in data-centers. A server, in software-speak, is anything that serves requests at a
web development Hallmarks of a good API Let's dig into an API. An API can be an HTTP API, but it can also be a software library, or CLI. I think there are many things which can make an API good or bad, but a few things come to mind fo rme. In general, I