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In a very real way, APIs are technology’s bridges. And like bridges in the physical world, these digital bridges must be engineered carefully to function and last as intended. Designing an API that’s ...

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When you’re writing software for other people to use in their applications, designing the API is important. The API is the interface that developers see and work with. Building on top of a great API ...

R Software Inc., the company behind RapidAPI, which has built a developer-focused marketplace for application programming interfaces, said today it will extend its platform across the entire API ...

You can't "grow" a fluent API; you need to understand how developers will need (and expect) to use your API. Here's a case study of what the design process for a fluent API looks like. In my previous ...

Daniel Jacobson (Twitter | LinkedIn), is currently director of engineering for the Netflix API. Prior to Netflix, Daniel ran application development for NPR where, among other things, he created the ...

For developers who want to expose their Web applications to other computers and Internet services, API platform vendor Apigee is offering a free online tool to help create APIs using the increasingly ...

Microsoft’s Concise API Design Language has a new name and a larger role to play in building REST, OpenAPI, gRPC, and other services. Some time ago I wrote about the work Microsoft was doing to ...

In the last decade, every web application developer has become an API designer. But most organizations do not think of developers as API designers, nor do they think about APIs as a product of design ...