Think of a REST API like a waiter in a restaurant. You (an app) tell the waiter what you want (your request), and the waiter goes to the kitchen (the server) to get it for you. REST is just a set of ...

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The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. The OpenJS Foundation is getting its party hat on – Node.js 21 has arrived. Node.js an asynchronous event-driven ...

Node.js is a lean, fast, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that is useful for both servers and desktop applications. Scalability, latency, and throughput are key performance indicators for ...