Todd fredrich
Todd is an API Architect at Pearson eCollege in Denver, Colorado. He is the author of RestExpress, a lightweight, scalable REST framework for Java (and MongoDB), which powers many of Pearson's heavily-used APIs, such as Authentication, Authorization, Identity Management, etc. He also runs a tutorial site, REST API Tutorial.
Lately, Todd has been messing around with JSON-LD, HAL, and Cassandra.
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Synopsis: Historically, we've done versioning as early as possible via a version number in the URL. Now, due to several factors, we're versioning later, if at all, via the Content-Type header. Here's how...
Synopsis: Quick overview of RestExpress, a lightweight, high-scale REST framework in Java. What it is, why it's needed, how it works.
Synopsis: Mobile app developers apparently have no interest in, or actually dislike hypermedia content in JSON payloads. "Really?" you say... here's why and what to do about it.