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Learn some best practices for designing APIs that will function optimally in microservice architectures Microservice architecture is helping an increasing number of organizations to minimize the time required for software application projects and to maximize the reliability of backend systems. In this lesson, we explain why APIs are essential to microservices and provide some best practices […]
The idea that good design is essential to building great products and services has become a truism in our industry. Most of us intuitively understand the idea that expending effort on the design of our code, system architecture and APIs will payoff after implementation. I’m certainly a big believer in the power of good design […]
The API Academy’s Mike Amundsen is regularly asked which books he would recommend for those who want to learn more about designing, implementing and maintaining Web APIs. In this article, Mike offers a shortlist of books he discovered as he was learning about APIs – many of which are still among the books he consults most regularly.
The syntax of APIs matter much less than their discoverability and the ease with which developers can figure out how to use them effectively. In this article, Ronnie Mitra of the API Academy discusses the nuts and bolts of designing developer-friendly APIs.
Designing Web APIs is more than just URLs, HTTP status codes, headers and payloads. The process of design – what is essentially a “look and feel” for your API – is very important and is well-worth the effort. This article briefly outlines a methodology that results in an API design that takes advantage of both […]
Take a look at the key opportunities and challenges in the API description/discovery/profiles space Kicking off InfoQ’s The Next Level in Web APIs series, Mike Amundsen takes a look at key formats and vendors in the API description/discovery/profiles space then identifies the opportunities and challenges in this fast-moving portion of the Web API field.
Learn about the right and wrong ways for Web applications to handle errors All applications need to report and handle errors. Doing this on the Web requires dealing with both protocol-level and application-level information. This video shows both the “right†and the “wrong†way to handle errors on the Web.
The recent debacle of the Nissan Leaf triggered memories. Twenty three months ago, I wrote a blog entitled The Internet of Things – Today. In that posting, I mused about the rapidly emerging IoT, and some of the cool new things that were beginning to appear, such as Anki Drive and Nest solutions. I also […]
Learn how to implement HTTP caching properly in your APIs Cache headers have been an essential part of the HTTP specification from the very beginning. They have played a crucial role in scaling the Web to the enormous size that it has today. Or at least, that statement is true when we talk about the […]
To enable app developers as a means of driving innovation in your business, you must provide more than just an API. Developers need context and support in order to ensure that using your API as the basis for an app will benefit them, you and end users alike. Watch this CA Technologies webinar featuring Matt McLarty of the API Academy and […]
