API Technology

27 March 2025 | Anastasia Kholod

We are living in the age of enterprise cloud-based products that are creating the building blocks for the future of internet-based software. Years ago, high-tech businesses kept their doors closed and hid the proprietary code. Each company ran their software on their own systems and never shared anything with the... Read More

6 August 2026 | Lexy Mayko

Integrations and APIs are inseparably linked. Integrations exist to let applications exchange data, and APIs are what make that data exchange possible. What often gets overlooked, though, is authentication and the role it plays for the end-user. Before the “communication” through the API can happen, the server where the necessary... Read More

10 April 2025 | Lexy Mayko

Representational State Transfer (REST) is a technical description of how the World Wide Web works. If we imagine the Web as a device with its own operating system, its architectural style would be REST. A REST Application Programming Interface (REST API) is a type of web server that allows both... Read More

8 September 2025 | Lexy Mayko

The process of online retailing is not as easy as it might seem at first glance. It consists of many operations that, in many cases, become too difficult for e-merchants to cope with on their own. One of them is shipping. It is the process of transportation products from the... Read More

31 July 2026 | Lexy Mayko

Today we are proud to present an interview with Lorinda Brandon, an expert in API business strategies. She shared her experience, her perspective on the role of APIs for eCommerce businesses, and her thoughts on how APIs continue to evolve. It was very exciting to get this interview with Lorinda,... Read More

30 September 2025 | Anastasia Kholod

With 13 years of successful experience and more than 30 000 online stores powered, X-Cart has become one of the most powerful shopping platforms in the market. Integration with this shopping cart may be the next step toward success for inventory and data feed management, repricing and accounting systems, and... Read More

1 April 2025 | Lexy Mayko

We are happy to continue bringing the word and experience of the top API experts out there to you. This time, our special guest is Owen Rubel, the creator of API Chaining & IO State, an original Amazon employee, an experienced platform architect, and a ukulele aficionado. We share the... Read More

25 March 2026 | Vladyslava Vashchynska

3dcart API enables eCommerce SaaS developers to integrate their software with online stores, automate data exchange, and build scalable multi-platform workflows. Therefore, if you plan to integrate with 3dcart, understanding how its API works is essential for delivering reliable features like order synchronization, inventory updates, and customer data management. According... Read More

31 July 2026 | Lexy Mayko

Error handling is not something most developers enjoy thinking about, but it is a critical part of designing a good API. An API error code is a short, standardized signal that tells a calling application (and the developer behind it) what went wrong and, ideally, how to fix it. When... Read More

18 June 2025 | Lexy Mayko

As soon as APIs grew into a big business and an economy sprung up around them, documentation became a part of the game. Its importance cannot be understated, as the information it should provide may affect a vendor’s reputation greatly. Documentation can either win an API provider an army of... Read More