GCP – API design 101: Links to our most popular posts
APIs play a critical role in helping software connect and communicate, as well as making the lives of developers a little easier. Over the years we’ve published a number of posts to help developers design APIs to get the most from them.
Below is a list of our most popular API design posts you can read now or bookmark for later.
Getting started with API design
API Web Design: The Missing Link: Best Practices for Crafting Interfaces that Developers Love [ebook]
APIs 101: Everything you need to know about API design
Designing and managing APIs: Best practices & common pitfalls
API Design Guide [documentation]
Best practices
Why you should use links, not keys, to represent relationships in APIs
Names vs identifiers in URLs: Which should you use in your API design?
The false dichotomy of stability vs human-centric URL design in web APIs
API Design: Which version of versioning is right for you?
API versioning best practices: When you need versioning and when you don’t
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