Michael Meisel

I would say that RESTful APIs have become the de facto standard for APIs on the web, except that I can't, because REST is not a standard. It's a set of design principles created by Roy Fielding as part of his Ph.D. dissertation. As a result, there is much discussion (and…

One of the fundamental advantages of a visualization over standard traceroute output is that you can see the actual network topology, not just a list of IP addresses. But, as you might expect, these topologies can become quite complex. In this post, you'll learn about some…