Author: Jason Gilmore

W. Jason Gilmore is DreamFactory's CTO. Prior to joining DreamFactory, he spent almost 15 years as a consultant and developer for a wide variety of organizations around the globe. Jason is the author of almost a dozen books on web development, including most recently Easy Laravel 5, and Beginning PHP and MySQL, 4th Edition. He's the co-founder of the CodeMash Conference, one of the largest software conferences in the Midwestern United States. Jason serves as a technical advisor to the boards of several technology startups. His free time is spent playing with his kids and reading.

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How to Create a MySQL REST API in Minutes

According to StackOverflow’s 2022 survey, 46% of professional developers rate MySQL as the most popular database to use in the workspace. As programmers, we should not be bothered with repeatedly writing code which is otherwise readily available, robust, and well-tested. Yet this problem remains persistent in the REST API space, despite the implementation process being …

by Jason Gilmore • March 13, 2023