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Phil Sturgeon in APIs You Won't Hate

Sep 26, 2017

API Versioning Has No “Right Way”

But it does have quite a few bad ideas.

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Phil Sturgeon in APIs You Won't Hate

Sep 25, 2017

PUT vs PATCH vs JSON-PATCH

What is the difference between them?

A question that is asked with increasing regularity in the APIs You Won’t Hate Slack Group is one which has been asked for years, but does not always have a good answer. The question is:

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Phil Sturgeon in APIs You Won't Hate

Sep 22, 2017

Turning Contracts into Beautiful Documentation

Continuing on the topic of contracts — metadata that describes your data — it…

Phil Sturgeon in APIs You Won't Hate

Sep 15, 2017

Commit to API Contracts

When building and maintaining a Web API, it’s surprisingly common for the “I” (interface) part to be overlooked. Often new functionality is built in close contact with a specific client, with the backend and frontend developers sitting together to hash out the functionality.

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Phil Sturgeon in APIs You Won't Hate

Sep 11, 2017

Meet the API Community

The other day somebody was curious when I mentioned “the API community”. They wondered who/what/where I was talking about.

The confusion stemmed from their stance that APIs are just something you build with a programming language, and just where and who were this…

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