When developing RESTful web services, people are often confused with handling exceptions. This post will explain a powerful tactic for using exception mapper with the Dropwizard framework.
Scaling out using PHP while still building on Google's V8 JavaScript runtime... read on to hear about DreamFactory's decisions when building their REST API backend.
Dropwizard has taken the Java world by storm with it's ease of use and great functionality. The metrics library is particularly powerful for anyone wanting to measure statistics in their Java applications.
Go is an excellent choice for building fast and scalable API's. The net/http package provides most of what you need, but augmented with the Gorilla Toolkit, you'll have an API up and running in no time. Learn how to build and secure a Go API with JSON Web Tokens and consume it via a modern UI built with React.
Everybody loves the Singleton because, conceptually, it seems the easiest of the lot to understand and (in most post-1995 languages) the easiest to implement. But everybody hates it because its singleton-y nature means it is a natural target for concurrency problems.
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