This article explains how to choose between fine‑grained and coarse‑grained resource designs in REST APIs, illustrating trade‑offs with blog‑post examples, showing how to model business processes as intent resources, and discussing the impact of avoiding PUT in favor of CQRS.
This article explains why well‑designed APIs are essential, covering data modeling, resource hierarchy, naming conventions, RESTful principles, CRUD operations, versioning strategies, and pagination techniques, and provides concrete examples and guidelines to help developers create robust, maintainable, and developer‑friendly APIs.
This guide explains why APIs are essential, how to model data and resources, design RESTful endpoints, handle versioning, and implement pagination, providing practical best‑practice rules that make APIs robust, clear, and developer‑friendly.
This article explains why APIs are essential, how to model data and design resource‑oriented endpoints, outlines RESTful conventions, discusses major and minor versioning strategies, and provides practical pagination guidelines to create robust, maintainable backend services.
This article explores core API design principles—clear mental models, simplicity, multiple implementations—and offers concrete best‑practice guidance, from documentation and resource modeling to idempotency, compatibility, batch updates, and error handling, illustrated with the classic POSIX File API.
