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• Challenge your wits on stateful and stateless concepts

  It's essential to understand the differences between stateful and stateless application characteristics, especially as distributed architectures grow in popularity. Test your knowledge on state concepts with this quiz. Continue Reading

• source code

  Source code is the fundamental component of a computer program that is created by a programmer. It can be read and easily understood by a human being. Continue Reading

• Serverless architecture diagram shows a new side of server-side

  Examine this serverless architecture diagram to see how development processes and the lifecycle of code differs from traditional server- and client-side development. Continue Reading

• Serverless testing in CI eliminates surprises in production

  Writing in a functional language without intuitive unit test coverage? Don't have control over resources or scaling? Here's how to make serverless testing work anyway. Continue Reading

• Think carefully about API language standards

  API language standards were few and far between in the past, but now cloud has made API standardization more important than ever. Learn what you need to know about these standards. Continue Reading

• Definitions to Get Started

  • source code
  • user interface (UI)
  • REST (REpresentational State Transfer)
  • RESTful API

  • application program interface (API)
  • class diagram
  • Web services
  • state diagram (state machine diagram or statechart diagram)

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• user interface (UI)

  The user interface (UI) is the point of human-computer interaction and communication in a device.Continue Reading

• How to design APIs for hybrid cloud architecture

  Hybrid cloud is complex, particularly because it's the application -- not the server -- that manages API flows. Review some strategies for API management in a hybrid scenario.Continue Reading

• A serverless architecture tutorial for development teams

  Still emerging serverless technology offers some big advantages for development teams. This serverless architecture tutorial can help clarify the basics on where to start.Continue Reading

• 4 practical methods to increase service resilience

  Resiliency refers to the ability of your architecture to quickly predict, detect and mitigate potential performance failures. Here are four ways to fortify your software.Continue Reading

• REST (REpresentational State Transfer)

  REST (REpresentational State Transfer) is an architectural style for developing web services. REST is popular due to its simplicity and the fact that it builds upon existing systems and features of the internet's HTTP in order to achieve its ...Continue Reading

• What key messaging patterns should enterprise architects know?

  An unknowable number of interactions occur to enable digitization. Applications must pass these messages according to a design pattern, and these two categories suit enterprise-scale apps.Continue Reading

• RESTful API

  A RESTful API is an application program interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. A RESTful API -- also referred to as a RESTful web service -- is based on representational state transfer (REST) technology, an ...Continue Reading

• application program interface (API)

  An application program interface (API) is code that allows two software programs to communicate with each other.Continue Reading

• class diagram

  A class diagram is an illustration of the relationships and source code dependencies among classes in the Unified Modeling Language (UML).Continue Reading

• Address goals with various enterprise architecture strategies

  Enterprise architects have a range of frameworks at their fingertips, but their role also entails creating consensus and understanding between business and technical stakeholders.Continue Reading