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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

• Definitions to Get Started

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

  • RESTful API
  • application program interface (API)
  • class diagram
  • Web services

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• 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

• How to create a stateful application with service brokers, DTP

  Complex state control issues come with the territory of stateful application design. Learn useful concepts that manipulate state and enable a stateful app to work as envisioned.Continue Reading

• Web services

  Web services are a type of internet software that use standardized messaging protocols and are made available from an application service provider’s web server for use by a client or other web-based programs.Continue Reading

• state diagram (state machine diagram or statechart diagram)

  A state diagram, also known as a state machine diagram or statechart diagram, is an illustration of the states an object can attain as well as the transitions between those states in the Unified Modeling Language (UML).Continue Reading

• What does it mean to be an enterprise API management architect?

  APIs can't be taken lightly, and that means the API architect's job is essential. Learn about essential API architect responsibilities and how organizations can make the most of APIs.Continue Reading

• When event-driven messaging is the right choice

  Event-driven messaging and API messaging both have their place in application architecture. In this Q&A, a Gartner analyst explains when you might choose one over the other.Continue Reading