API-University

The API Mandate — Install API Thinking at your Company

Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder, and CEO wrote the following memo to his employees around 2002. It got known as the “Bezos API Mandate” or “Amazon API Mandate”.

APIs and the Internet of Things

Everyone is talking about the Internet of Things. But what does it have to do with APIs?

The 10 most critical API security risks — Part 8: Injection

What is API Design?

Any type of design requires making well-informed decisions. The decisions are intended to make the product better in some…

Desirable Properties of APIs

Any API needs to fulfill its responsibilities, such as gathering, structuring, delivering and securing data. But this is not enough to make the API really desirable for API consumers. What are the desirable properties of APIs?

Why are there Two Languages in GraphQL?

GraphQL provides a new philosophy for building APIs, which helps us to structure the interaction between frontend and backend. To structure the interaction, GraphQL offers two languages: a declarative, typed query language for APIs and a schema language. These…

API-Review Series: How to use the Image Search API of unsplash.com

In this week’s episode, I review the Image Search API of unsplash.com. In this episode, you can discover, what Image Search APIs can do for you, and how to call an Image Search API from a node.js application.

How to build APIs efficiently?

I will get back to APIs in a moment. For now, let us assume that we were in the car manufacturing…