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Learn how OpenAPI Specification (formerly known as swagger), a language-agnostic interface to write RESTful APIs which allows both humans and computers to understand the service capabilities. With the increasing number of adoption towards service-oriented architecture and for better integrations with external systems, it became a necessity to write Restful APIs for our services. While building so we might often find several challenges such as, Standard & Consistent API design Better documentation Client Libraries Playground (better developer experience) So while writing APIs, we have to make sure it sticks to a standard design principle, update documentation (hosted elsewhere) and finally write client libraries (harder if you have to support multiple languages)....

We all know how valuable APIs are. They’re the gateway to exploring other services, integrating with them, and building great solutions faster. You might have built or are thinking of building APIs for other developers to use. An API needs some form of authentication to provide authorised access to the data it returns. There are several authentication standards available today such as API Keys, OAuth, JWT, etc. In this article, we’ll look at how to correctly manage API Keys to access APIs....

This story is for beginners and anyone who has a basic understanding about cookies (sessions cookies), but who’s not sure how to secure them properly. You don’t have to be a security expert to do that. You just have to understand the process and then you will know.