5 Guidelines for Designing RESTful APIs Effectively

ICYMI: RESTful Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) utilize HTTPs for receiving and executing requests. Developed from Representational State Transfer (REST) concepts, it is primarily designed for the purpose of data transfer between web-based services. Owing to its streamlined bandwidth consumption, it is preferred over Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) for developing APIs.

How Do RESTful APIs Work?

RESTful APIs decompose transactions into meaningful parts and functions using GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE HTTP requests to perform CRUD operations. The stateless element means RESTful APIs retain no data during transactions and can be implemented in cloud applications since they incorporate high scalability and swift deployment. https://goo.gl/YF31zS #DataIntegration #ML

68 Stops in a Comprehensive API Strategy Transit Map

I am refining my comprehensive list of stops that I highlight as part of the API lifecycle, or what I call API Transit–the stops that each of the services we deliver will have to “pass through” at some point. I’m sharing this list with other team members as part of existing consulting arrangements I’m engaged in with Streamdata.io, as well as baking into my API transit work for some workshops I’m doing in April. All of these are available on the API lifecycle section of API Evangelist, but I will be pushing them to become a first-class citizen on the home page of API Evangelist once again.

Here are 68 potential stops I’d consider for any microservice to be exposed to, as part of a larger API transit strategy map: https://goo.gl/oiDtMg #DataIntegration #ML