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Web services are software systems designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network.

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What's the best RESTful URL structure for a recursive resource?

I'm creating a RESTfull service for a tree-like resource structure and was wondering what the best URL structure would be? I have three requirements: be able to get a collection of root resources be able to get an individual resource be able to…
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Domain names vs URL path for web services

A team at the office is developing web micro-services intended to support sales sites and mobile apps with total combined orders count of less than 100K (not sure how much less but greater than 10K) per month. They are using NodeJS, Docker and AWS.…
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What technology is needed to create a live video streaming service?

I am curious as to what technology is needed to create a service such as stageit.com and livestream.com. What hardware and software is involved, besides a camera and microphone, from the broadcaster's computer to a viewer's computer?
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Understanding the difference between Webservices and Service Layer

My understanding of a webservice and service layer is as follows - Service Layer: An abstraction layer which exposes a set of common operations which can be used by multiple consumers. For instance , I have a database containing customer data.…
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How much data should be required in a request to a webservice?

When recieving data from clients how much data that you provided to them should you require back from them? For example when clients order a product from a webservice should they just need to provide a product code? The other alternative would be to…
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REST API: How to PUT/POST different units of data

I have an API I have designed which can return data in 2 different units. To explain this I am tending to use the example of a measurement, in particular temperature. However my use case is slightly more complex, representing a tree of values with…
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Moving back end from Parse.com to Amazon Web Services

I'm looking for insight from someone who has used at least AWS (if not also Parse.com). My iOS app currently uses Parse.com for these purposes: 1) to store user data (by translating between JSON and core data) 2) to run javascript functions to…
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Highly available web service design?

I was wondering if any design gurus out there could help me understand how large web companies design their services to be highly available. The scenario I'm thinking of is: Client A connects to Service A Client A sends N requests On the N+1…
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Is allowing voting without sign-in always a bad idea?

I have a mobile app from which I'd like to allow voting on Things. I don't want to force all the users to have to sign up using email/Facebook/etc. just so that I can properly limit voting. Is it really a bad idea to leave voting to be an "open"…
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How can I pull data from PeopleSoft on demand?

I work in IT at a university and I'm working with about 5 different departments to develop a new process for students to apply to a specific school within the university (not the university as a whole). We're using a web-based college application…
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A Web Service to collect data from local servers every hour

I'm trying to find a way to collect data from different servers around the world. Here are the details: There is only one single PowerShell script on servers that encrypts data (simple csv file) and sends with preferred method (HTTP/HTTPS Post could…
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How to build a web service to detect content change(s) at an external website?

I'm researching ways to build a web service to periodically traverse a predetermined list of web pages (of another external website) to detect if a page's content has changed from editing of the page, and deletion of the page. The end goal is to…
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Do WSDL based web services need to use SOAP?

Does a web service that is defined by a WSDL; when implemented; need to use the SOAP specification to structure the request and response messages? Can it use an alternative to SOAP? Are there any alternatives to SOAP that are being used? Vice…
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How does the Same Origin Policy protect users?

When I first learned about CORS and Same Origin Policy, I thought it was an honor system (enforced by browsers) to protect a website's resources from being stolen, bootstrapped, by other websites. But since then I've read things here and there that…
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Open Source Service Discovery

I'm trying to wrap my head around this article on OSS service discovery and I'm having a tough time seeing the forest through the trees. In that article, the author poses the main problem for service discovery: The problem seems simple at first:…
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