In good API design, software components behave much like mechanical components. They perform a particular job behind a well-understood interface. You can deal with the component as a single entity.

The API consultant James Higginbotham wrote recently about the advantages of adopting an API design-first approach using the “Align-Define-Design-Refine” (ADDR) process. ADDR is an iterative ...

A two-part series of articles about API design at Netflix was recently published in the company’s technology blog. It describes how they solved the problem of ignoring irrelevant message fields ...

The most successful API projects take what I call a “design-first” approach. Fundamentally, design-first is about creating an experience that delights your audience.

Jumpstarting API Design. Before implementing an API, we must analyze complex business requirements. What actions need to be performed, what data needs to be exposed and what data governance ...

Encourage your API designers to use this approach to not only add documentation in the main body of an API design, but also in any libraries you use. There’s a lot to like in Cadl.

RapidAPI Design by Paw will improve the developer experience thanks to its intuitive user interface, which enables them to quickly create, find and run API requests and set up arguments, headers ...

Accelerate API Delivery: Paw eases design and development workflows for ongoing API projects by offering powerful environment variables and dynamic values that improve productivity for developers.

For a start, AI can contribute to the API design process and make it more streamlined. Further, you can use AI to set up rule-based triggers that are based on preset conditions used from ...

API managers can help you design, secure, and monitor these vital interfaces to your data. Credit: Amirali Mirhashemian The need for API management platforms has escalated over the past decade.