Articles in category: HTTP

Faster Web with HTTP/2

Sergio Santoro Sergio Santoro avatar

4 minute read

HTTP is the protocol that powers the Web. It was originally designed in 1996 for transferring and manipulating simple text-based documents (mainly hypertext resources). Nowadays it’s been adopted for many different purposes. It’s used for: multimedia content transfer, rich real-time session-based web applications, API messages dispatch, Internet of Things and much more. For this reason, the HTTP specifications are continuously updated, by adding new features and improving…

GraphQL: an introduction

Vito Latrofa Vito Latrofa avatar

9 minute read

For many developers, nowadays, building an API for their applications essentially means mapping the resources of the domain to URIs, with the REST principles in mind. Usually creating a RESTful system is not difficult, and the simplicity of the idea makes the task easier. Let’s see some of the consequences and benefits of choosing REST: