The Universal Principles of Design is a classic design text cataloging more than 100 design principles from a variety of disciplines.
What makes for a great API design? What will make the developers who use your API successful quickly? What debates and decisions go on behind the scenes before an API team launches an API?
We're in a data-driven and Web API economy. Web API designers need to define what and how data should be exposed from a variety of apps, services, and stores. What are the challenges of unlocking your data and opening up access in a straightforward and standards-compliant manner? Is OData the right tool for the job? What does it mean from the point of view of designing an API?
An introduction to HATEOAS core principles, examples, and a look at the value of the approach for API providers and app developers.
The fourth and final episode in the API Facade Pattern series: covers people considerations—the team structures, the roles and responsibilities and the politics—for building and using an API facade.
The third of four episodes in the API Facade Pattern series: covers technology for an API facade.
The second of four episodes in the API Facade Pattern series: common patterns for an API facade.
