REST Fundamentals

I completed a Pluralsight course to understand REST Fundamentals. It was an interesting session as it taught about how APIs work. Some of the topics included the REST verbs like GET, DELETE, POST, PUT/PATCH. It talked about the error codes used, like 200 for success and 400 for client error. We also reviewed endpoints, authentication, and design best practices. To round it out, I created a Python script to pull API data from Weather.com, which is a popular first time “Hello World” exercise on the subject.

I do feel more informed about these and comfortable with extracting data for future data integration projects. The API landscape has exploded and much of my old understanding of data interchanges are outdated. I was glad I had the opportunity to take this course.