What is an API?

Application Programming Interfaces ( API) have been around since the early days of IT. Today, API’s are almost always synonymous with server-side web development. Earlier, API’S were built using technologies such as CORBA, XML-RPC, and SOAP. The Web has radically transformed the way we produce and share information. It has democratized information sharing and has revolutionized information creation and sharing. Nowadays, we have RESTful APIs. To learn more about REST see here...

February 10, 2020 · 4 min · 744 words · Abhinav Pradeep

MongoDB .Net driver

Today was a pretty boring day. My parents and I went to the plaza. There was a lot of shopping to do and it was nearly 2 o’clock by the time we finished. We then grabbed some food and headed home. I then got to work on preparing the material for today, so yeah :/ , not much to say about the day. In my Starting MongoDB – The basics post, I explained how to create a cluster, set up a MongoDB database and connect using the Mongo Shell....

January 18, 2020 · 4 min · 765 words · Abhinav Pradeep

MongoDB-Basics(Part 2)

Yesterday was a pretty busy day for me. I wanted to get this blog up yesterday itself but hey ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, what can you do? Yesterday I had to go with my parents to the Plaza. We had to get some shopping done and I didn’t get much time to do what I wanted to. However, the one thing I was able to do yesterday was to keep all the research and material to do this today....

January 16, 2020 · 5 min · 939 words · Abhinav Pradeep

Starting MongoDB – The basics

Today I started out early. I woke up to the breath taking sight of the ocean from my window. I’m a pretty lazy guy. It’s impossibly hard for me to get out of bed. I felt DRAINED today morning. I’m pretty nocturnal. I usually have more energy at night than in the morning. I persevered and got out of bed with renewed energy. Either that or my dad practically pulled me out of bed and dumped me in the shower (probably the latter over the former but let’s choose to ignore that fact)...

January 9, 2020 · 3 min · 619 words · Abhinav Pradeep