APIs & Web Services

Designing and consuming REST APIs and webhooks.

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Comprehensive guide APIs & Web Services

What Is a REST API and What Good Design Looks Like

A REST API is a standard way for two programs to talk over HTTP. This guide shows good design principles with examples: resource URLs, methods, status codes, errors, authentication and safe samples in WordPress and Laravel.

Sep 24, 2026 4 min read

Comprehensive guide APIs & Web Services

Webhooks: When Another Service Notifies Your Site

A webhook means that instead of your site constantly asking another service what happened, that service tells you itself. This article explains how it works, secure receiving with signature verification, preventing duplicate processing, and PHP and Laravel code samples.

Sep 20, 2026 4 min read