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Surveying the Web API Security Landscape

It wasn’t too long ago that building a distributed application meant you’d implement a SOAP based web service. At that time, web based interfaces were based on some pretty heavy

Advanced Google Maps Functionality Tutorial

The Google Maps API is a web service that allows you to use Google maps on your website, as well as access geocoding, directions, elevation, place and time zone information.

Upgrade Your Website with Google Charts

With Google charts, displaying chart data on web pages has become very easy and stress-free. Many types of charts can be used, such as pie charts, line charts, histograms, scatter

Create Your Own MVC Framework

The Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern is a widely used software architecture for web applications. It divides the application into three components and defines relationships between them: Model represents database logic ??it

How to Speed Up Your Website

Website speed is one of the most important aspects of user’s browsing experience, especially for e-commerce websites. One study found that 57% of visitors close the page after waiting 3

Using AWS Elastic Load Balancing for Developers

Amazon Web Services offers applications running on AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) the ability to get even traffic across all instances through an offering called Elastic Load Balancing. Having load

A Developer’s Guide to AWS Auto Scaling

As we learned in earlier articles, Amazon offers resizable compute capacity in the cloud. To help with EC2 Elastic Computing resources, Amazon offers Auto Scaling, a service that allows launching