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MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
Apr 9, 2016 · Cloud Native

The Real Challenge of Microservices: Service Splitting and Building a Cloud‑Native Platform

The article explores the multiple demands on internet systems, explains why business service granularity is the biggest obstacle to microservice adoption, and shares practical insights on designing a cloud‑native platform with Docker, Kubernetes, unified monitoring, API governance, and multi‑tenant resource isolation.

API designDockerKubernetes
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The Real Challenge of Microservices: Service Splitting and Building a Cloud‑Native Platform
21CTO
21CTO
Feb 24, 2016 · Backend Development

Designing Robust RESTful APIs: Best Practices and Guidelines

This article explains how to design a well‑structured RESTful API by covering protocol choice, domain naming, versioning, endpoint conventions, HTTP verbs, filtering, status codes, error handling, response formats, hypermedia links, authentication, and data format recommendations.

API designHTTP verbsRESTful API
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Designing Robust RESTful APIs: Best Practices and Guidelines
ITPUB
ITPUB
Dec 22, 2015 · User Experience Design

How to Build a Great Developer Experience (DX) for Your APIs

This article explains why developer experience matters for API products, defines DX, outlines empathy‑driven principles, and provides concrete guidelines—clear documentation, easy onboarding, robust debugging tools, supportive channels, and community‑focused practices—to help API designers create more appealing and competitive services.

API designDeveloper RelationsUX
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How to Build a Great Developer Experience (DX) for Your APIs
21CTO
21CTO
Aug 29, 2015 · Backend Development

How to Prevent Service Failures: Trust Third‑Party, Guard Users, Master Your Own Code

An experienced backend engineer shares practical strategies to prevent service failures, covering third‑party distrust, user‑side safeguards, robust API design, traffic limiting, resource management, and architectural best practices such as single‑responsibility and avoiding single points of failure.

API designFault ToleranceSingle Responsibility
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How to Prevent Service Failures: Trust Third‑Party, Guard Users, Master Your Own Code
21CTO
21CTO
Aug 10, 2015 · Backend Development

Designing Practical RESTful APIs: Best Practices for Real‑World Apps

This article presents practical guidelines for designing, versioning, securing, and documenting RESTful APIs, covering resource modeling, URL conventions, filtering, sorting, pagination, authentication, rate limiting, error handling, and response formats to help developers build flexible and user‑friendly public APIs.

API designHTTPRESTful API
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Designing Practical RESTful APIs: Best Practices for Real‑World Apps
Architect
Architect
Jul 11, 2015 · Backend Development

From Zero to One: Architecture and Development Practices of the Meiya Beauty Video Community

The article shares Meiya's journey from a small startup to a full‑featured beauty video platform, detailing common early‑stage challenges, communication and protocol strategies, RESTful API design, development workflow, toolchain choices like Laravel, DB migrations, iOS libraries, ELK logging, and DevOps automation with SaltStack.

API designDevOpsELK
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From Zero to One: Architecture and Development Practices of the Meiya Beauty Video Community
Art of Distributed System Architecture Design
Art of Distributed System Architecture Design
Mar 3, 2015 · Backend Development

A Seven‑Step Methodology for Designing Web APIs

This article outlines a repeatable, seven‑step process for designing robust Web APIs that leverages both HTTP and broader Web protocols, covering everything from listing semantic descriptors to publishing the API, and emphasizes clear separation of design and implementation details for future extensibility.

API designRESTWeb API
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A Seven‑Step Methodology for Designing Web APIs
Qunar Tech Salon
Qunar Tech Salon
Jan 14, 2015 · Backend Development

A Seven‑Step Methodology for Designing, Implementing, and Maintaining Web APIs

This article presents a comprehensive, seven‑step methodology for designing, implementing, and maintaining Web APIs—covering business use‑case definition, semantic description, state‑diagram modeling, naming harmonization, media‑type selection, semantic archive creation, coding, and publishing—while offering interviews and further reading recommendations.

API designHTTPREST
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A Seven‑Step Methodology for Designing, Implementing, and Maintaining Web APIs
Qunar Tech Salon
Qunar Tech Salon
Nov 19, 2014 · Fundamentals

Characteristics of Good Interfaces and Core Design Principles

The article outlines the essential traits of high‑quality interfaces, describes a step‑by‑step process for designing and implementing them, and presents fundamental principles for interface, class, and method design to ensure usability, maintainability, and robustness in software development.

API designObject-Orientedbest practices
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Characteristics of Good Interfaces and Core Design Principles