An outage has halted automated access to congressional data, raising questions about whether the breakdown stems from a glitch or something more serious. The change came to light on Friday.

An API Gateway is a layer in an architecture pattern that handles many cross-cutting concerns. This article is about how we built an API Gateway in Ballerina for the WSO2 API Manager.

API is a term common in professional settings and discussions about software development, but what does it mean and how do they work?

REST stands for Representational State Transfer, is more open in how it is coded, and is the more common type of API. You’ll often see them described as RESTful APIs too.