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APIs & Network Protocols

Client-server communication architectures, bi-directional persistent sockets, binary RPC streams, and wire serialization.

Interactive Protocol Demonstration

Interactive Protocol EngineRESTful HTTP/1.1 & HTTP/2

Safe & Idempotent: Retrieves the specified resource representation without modifying server state.

GEThttps://api.devatlas.io/api/v1/technologies/react

HTTP 200/201

Node A

Client / Browser

Initiates HTTP request with headers

Node B

API Gateway

Token auth, rate-limiting & routing

Node C

Application Server

Controller handles business logic

Node D

Database (PostgreSQL)

ACID transactional read / write

Step 1/7:1. Client Sends Request(Browser / Client)

Client Request WireGET /api/v1/technologies/react

Accept: application/json

Authorization: Bearer dev_sec_99a8

Database Operation:

SELECT * FROM technologies WHERE slug = 'react' LIMIT 1;

Server Response Wire

200 OK

content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8

x-ratelimit-remaining: 994

x-response-time: 14.8ms

JSON Body:

{
  "status": "success",
  "data": {
    "id": "react",
    "name": "React",
    "version": "19.0",
    "stars": "230k+",
    "cached": true
  }
}

API Architecture

Beginner

Representational State Transfer: stateless web architectural style over HTTP.

#Protocol#HTTP#CRUD#Web API

Query Language

Intermediate

A query language for APIs and a runtime for executing queries with your existing data.

#API#Schema#Query Language