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When Designing APIs, Good Path Matters API University

When you are crafting the structure of your APIs, especially those to be exposed externally to the public, paths and responses should be free of anything extraneous. The time spent upfront engineering your paths and responses will end up paying dividends as your business and API evolve.

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Paul Dumas

API Design

1 day ago

Can Blockchain Be Used to Secure APIs? API University

Blockchain is the digital ledger system in which transactions made in Bitcoin or another cryptocurrency are recorded. This identity is changing and evolving quickly, and Blockchain may have found a calling as a security solution for API integrations. Can Blockchain help secure API integrations?

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Tom Donahoe

Security, Blockchain

06-02-2017

How to Design Static REST API Documentation API University

You need good API docs if devs are going to have success with their integrations. Just as importantly, your docs are also like marketing material. If on first reading, the prospective user doesn’t understand how your product works or thinks it would be a nightmare to integrate, you’re in trouble.

How-To

Seamus Holland

API Management, API Design

05-29-2017

Why Following the Robustness Principle with Your APIs Might Be a Good Idea API University

When you break your monolith up into microservices connected by exposed APIs, you expect these services to be decoupled and independently releasable. But too often they still aren’t. Jose Luis Ordiales Coscia over at the Klarna blog explains how to fix this problem with the robustness principle.

On the Web

Seamus Holland

API Design

05-20-2017

New SNAFUs Illustrate Scope of API Security Challenge and Hacker Tenacity API University

A pair of stories surfaced this week that serve as important reminders of how complicated, nuanced, and difficult API security really is. Even the biggest companies with the deepest pockets can't possibly be perfect when it comes to the security of their various API offerings and solutions.

Analysis

David Berlind

Security, API Design, Insurance

05-12-2017

Why Lyft Built Its Own Service Mesh and What it Learned From Doing It API University

Seven months ago Lyft announced Envoy, an L7 proxy and communication bus. It acts as a "service mesh" substrate that provides common utilities such as service discovery, load balancing, and more to heterogeneous application architectures. Lyft describes what they've learned in the ensuing months.

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Matt Klein

SOA

05-10-2017

8 Steps to Help Your API be Forward Compatible API University

We all know you should make your API backward-compatible. But how about forward-compatible? Being careful to make sure your API design will be consistent with future changes that you don’t know you’ll make yet. Adam Bar gives you eight steps he’s learned in order to make it a reality.

On the Web

Seamus Holland

API Design

05-07-2017

Building for Builders: Stripe's 8 Tips for Designing APIs and Supporting Developers API University

APIs have become ubiquitous but there exists a huge range in the quality of APIs and overall developer experiences. For service and infrastructure providers thinking about offering an API as your core business, here are eight things we've learned while building the Stripe's API.

Analysis

Romain Huet

API Design, Best Practices

05-04-2017

How to Scale Your API Using Rate Limiters API University

APIs need to be reliable and available and this can be put in question when there are sudden, unexpected increases in traffic. One way to ward off this danger is to use rate limiting. Paul Tarjan over at the Stripe blog takes you through the various types of rate limiting, when to use them and why.

How-To

Seamus Holland

API Design

04-30-2017

How ESPN Quintupled Efficiency in Its Massive, Real-Time API Program API University

As traditional television looks to reach new audiences, the API provides a way to reuse and recycle content in a way that broadens the customer base. Broadcast companies such as ESPN are now leveraging next-generation APIs to fight back these challengers and raise bar on the competition.

Analysis

Jennifer Riggins

Business, API Strategy

04-18-2017

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