Whois & Analysis for rapidapi.com

RapidAPI is a backend development platform that lets app & web developers create the backend for their apps using existing functional blocks.

The company was founded in Tel Aviv by Iddo Gino and Mickey Haslavsky on January 2015.

It has since received investments from angel investors including Dov Moran (founder of M-Systems), Marius Nacht (co-founder of Checkpoint) amongst others.

RapidAPI has also received investment from the 500 Startups accelerator, partaking in its 16th batch in San Francisco.

Representational state transfer (REST) or RESTful Web services are one way of providing interoperability between computer systems on the Internet.

REST-compliant Web services allow requesting systems to access and manipulate textual representations of Web resources using a uniform and predefined set of stateless operations.

Other forms of Web service exist, which expose their own arbitrary sets of operations such as WSDL and SOAP.

"Web resources" were first defined on the World Wide Web as documents or files identified by their URLs, but today they have a much more generic and abstract definition encompassing every thing or entity that can be identified, named, addressed or handled, in any way whatsoever, on the Web.

In a RESTful Web service, requests made to a resource's URI will elicit a response that may be in XML, HTML, JSON or some other defined format.

The response may confirm that some alteration has been made to the stored resource, and it may provide hypertext links to other related resources or collections of resources.

Using HTTP, as is most common, the kind of operations available include those predefined by the HTTP verbs GET, POST, PUT, DELETE and so on.

By making use of a stateless protocol and standard operations, REST systems aim for fast performance, reliability, and the ability to grow, by re-using components that can be managed and updated without affecting the system as a whole, even while it is running.