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Getting Started with Xen Hypervisor on OrangePi PC2 (Allwinner H5)

September 30, 2017 10:35 am Published by Comments Off on Getting Started with Xen Hypervisor on OrangePi PC2 (Allwinner H5)

Xen is one of the most actively developed and deployed open-source hypervisors. It has a  significant market share in server virtualization market and actively developed for x86/amd64 platforms and sponsored by Intel. It has also found traction for ARM architecture and hardware based virtualization is well supported for both 32... View Article


Automated Testing Of A RESTful API

May 17, 2015 2:50 am Published by Comments Off on Automated Testing Of A RESTful API

This blog will cover how to automate the testing of REST API. Automating the process of testing will ensure that you deliver a robust API. Any changes to the implementation is ensured, not to break any previous API behavior. In the last blog, we built a REST API using Yii... View Article


How To Make CORS-Friendly API

May 8, 2015 2:56 am Published by Comments Off on How To Make CORS-Friendly API

In this blog we will explore how to use API keys to enable Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS). API Keys are unique string (usually random number). An API key identifies a particular client that consumes the API. A client can be a web-based application or a native client. An API key... View Article


How To Use RBAC To Control API Access

May 7, 2015 2:57 am Published by Comments Off on How To Use RBAC To Control API Access

In this article, we will look into Role-based Access Control (RBAC) and see how we can use it fine-tune the access of REST API. This articles builds on the previous series of articles, in which the latest one is available here. Role-based Access Control is a mechanism which allows a... View Article


How to build a RESTful API using Yii-1.x

May 6, 2015 2:48 am Published by Comments Off on How to build a RESTful API using Yii-1.x

REST API is one of the most popular API standard. This article assumes that you already know what REST standard is. If you don’t, please go though this Wikipedia link. As an example, we would create a service that will provide information of TV series, seasons and episodes. Following API... View Article