Addict – Active Directory REST API in 30 seconds

Addict is a drop-in REST API microservice for Active Directory implementations. Just like that.

I’m leaving it here for the next time that I’ll have to deal with the Active Directory.  Or, hopefully, never.

Public JSON APIs

Public APIs is a collective list of free JSON APIs for use in web development.  You can find there web services for all kind of data – anything from weather and currency exchange, through government database, to random snippets like GIF images, Lorem Ipsum text, and quotes.

Rest APIs are REST-in-Peace APIs. Long Live GraphQL.

Rest APIs are REST-in-Peace APIs. Long Live GraphQL.” is yet another look at REST vs. GraphQL for the API implementation.

I’m involved with developing quite a bit of REST APIs at work, but for now we are just trying to buy us some time.  I want to take a really long and good look at GraphQL, but I don’t think this will happen this year.  In the meantime, if you have any good GraphQL resources, please do send them my way.

Huginn integration platform

Huginn is an integration platform that manages triggered events with agent services according to workflows.  Unlike many hosted services (Zapier, IFTTT, bip.io), Huginn is an Open Source application written in Ruby on Rails, and can be hosted, extended, and customized locally.

If you can read Russian, make sure to check out this post that shows some example use case scenarios.

GraphQL – a query language for your API

GraphQL is a query language for the API.  It’s been used by the Facebook mobile app since 2012.  The specification was open sourced in 2015.  And now GitHub is getting on board as  well.  This looks interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsPVrbDHgaY