api Archives

code-for-a-living April 14, 2022

The Authorization Code grant (in excruciating detail) Part 2 of 2

Previously, I examined OAuth at a high level, including the standards and the grants outlined in the specifications. If you haven’t you may want to read that article. In this post, you’ll learn the nuts and bolts of integrating OAuth to protect resources like APIs. While there are a number of different ways to do…

Dan Moore

code-for-a-living February 28, 2022

Debugging best practices for REST API consumers

How you can debug the APIs that you consume but don't own.

Joyce Lin

code-for-a-living October 6, 2021

Best practices for REST API security: Authentication and authorization

If you have a REST API accessible on the internet, you're going to need to secure it. Here's the best practices on how to do that.

Sam Scott and Graham Neray

podcast May 28, 2021

Podcast 342: You’re just as likely to ruin a successful product as make it better

Working from home? We chat about being your own operations department and battling scope creep solo.

Ben Popper Director of Content

podcast March 26, 2021

Podcast 324: Talking apps, APIs, and open source with developers from Slack

We chat about Slack's open source SDKs, such as Bolt for Javascript, Python, and Java.

Ben Popper Director of Content

code-for-a-living November 17, 2020

The complexities—and rewards—of open sourcing corporate software products

Two engineers at Salesforce talk about how they decoupled a complex library from old spaghetti logic, then open sourced that library by creating a new internal process where none existed before.

Demian Brecht and Drew Shafer

code-for-a-living July 24, 2020

The perils of impersonation tooling

On Wednesday, July 15th, a bitcoin scam hit Twitter. Celebrities such as Elon Musk, Barack Obama, and Bill Gates appeared to tweet out a message that promised to return double the amount of bitcoin sent to a specific wallet. It wasn’t a spontaneous and simultaneous act of generosity, it was a scam. At this point,…

Ryan Donovan

code-for-a-living April 15, 2020

Reading the spec: COVID-19 Contact tracing from Apple and Google

Culture and science are happening in real-time during the worldwide COVID-19 epidemic, which means that Apple and Google are working together in collaboration with health and governmental organizations and rapidly publishing specifications and standards.

Paul Ford