API Design Pattern of the Week
Weekly Article Series (21 Editions)
The authors of “Patterns for API Design — Simplifying Integration with Loosely Coupled Message Exchanges” publish weekly articles, each summarizing one pattern.
The first seven articles appeared on LinkedIn, tagged #apidpotw:
- Wish List
- Pagination
- Error Report
- API Key
- Processing Resource
- Information Holder Resource
- Data Transfer Resource
My co-author Mirko took over the series editor role for the second slice:
- State Transition Operation
- Metadata Element
- Id Element
- Embedded Entity
- Linked Information Holder
- Conditional Request
- API Description
The third slice appears here on Medium:
- Rate Limit
- Context Representation
- Version Identifier
- Two in Production
- Public API
- Retrieval Operation
- Service Level Agreement
Check out this Medium story for more information about the patterns and the book. The free online content on api-patterns.org includes extended pattern summaries, tutorials, pointers to articles, presentations and podcasts. InformIT has two Web extras as well: “How to Shape Responses to API Calls” and “What is the Right Service Granularity in APIs?”.
News (March 26, 2023): Book and article series feedback by an engaged reader is summarized in a pattern adoption story. Thank you Ton Donker!
News (March 20, 2023): New Medium story “A Checklist for API Design Review: 25 Questions Concerning the Developer Experience (DX)”.
© Olaf Zimmermann, 2023. All rights reserved.
