Who are the audiences for your API and how do you optimize for them? An innocuous question, but don't underestimate its importance in the growing world of APIs.

Xignite’s product, financial data, is in abundant supply all over the world, so there is little chance of competing based on the raw materials provided. But by using well-designed, developer ...

The basics of API design Core to all these types of failures where the API doesn’t work as planned is a need for design that considers multiple aspects of a good API plan.

To deliver the best possible API product, you need a process that lets all team members contribute their best.

These phases are Align, Define, Design and Refine. The idea is to align all stakeholders, then map their requirements into digital capability definitions, resulting in a technical API design.

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 ...

Finally, RapidAPI Design by Paw makes collaboration across teams easier by enabling multiple development teams to work on larger projects while keeping all of their API calls in sync with ...

Introducing Cadl Microsoft has begun to move much of its API development to a language called Cadl, which helps you define API structures programmatically before compiling to OpenAPI definitions.

Kong Inc., a cloud connectivity company, is releasing a new open source tool called Insomnia Designer, offering a collaborative API design editor. Building on Insomnia Core, which Kong acquired in ...

But the problem with many RESTful web services isn't their development but their design. This RESTful APIs tutorial addresses the web service design issue and sheds light on the common mistakes ...