API Design

Development

• 6 awesome reasons to use ngrok when testing webhooks | Twilio

Security

• App and API SOTI report | Akamai - In Akamai's latest SOTI report, we examine the emerging app and API attack landscape to better assess the evolving TTPs, industries at most risk, and discuss up-to-date safeguarding techniques.
• long polling - What is a RESTful way of monitoring a REST resource for changes? - Stack Overflow

Snippets

Validate a uuencoded PDF as JSON data

cat PDF.json | jq '.payload.attachments[0].documentStream' -r | base64 -d | file -
/dev/stdin: PDF document, version 1.4