APIS

Rest Api

• API Caching

  How to use Cache-Control headers and ETags to reduce bandwidth, lower server load, and speed up API...

• API Consistency Rules

  Why a consistent API style matters and what your style guide must cover — from field casing and pagi...

• API Deprecation Process

  A five-step process for deprecating REST API endpoints gracefully — from signalling deprecation in t...

• API Error Handling

  How to handle errors consistently in a REST API — using a global exception handler, correlation IDs,...

• API Field Naming Consistency

  Why picking a single field naming convention — and enforcing it across response bodies, query parame...

• API Idempotency

  How idempotency works in REST APIs, which HTTP methods are idempotent by design, and how to make POS...

• API Rate Limiting and Throttling

  How to protect a REST API from abuse using rate limiting — covering response headers, 429 handling,...

• Authentication and Tokens

  How to secure a REST API using Bearer tokens, short-lived access tokens, and refresh token rotation...

• Core HTTP Methods

  The semantic meaning of GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE in REST APIs, and why letting the HTTP met...

• Datetime Handling in REST APIs

  Why every REST API should use ISO 8601 in UTC, and how to handle timezone offsets, sub-second precis...

• Filtering, Sorting, and Pagination

  How to give API clients control over large collections using query parameter filtering, sort orderin...

• Including Related Data in API Responses

  How to let API clients opt into related resource expansion using an include query parameter, avoidin...

• REST API Documentation

  How to write and maintain REST API documentation using OpenAPI — covering endpoint descriptions, req...

• REST API HTTP Status Codes

  A reference guide to HTTP status codes for REST APIs, covering success codes, client errors, and ser...

• REST API Pre-Release Checklist

  A final verification checklist covering documentation, correctness, security, performance, testing,...

• REST API Resource Naming

  Conventions for naming REST API resources — plural nouns, shallow nesting, hyphens over underscores,...

• REST API Response Shape

  How to structure consistent REST API responses using a data envelope, including pagination metadata...

• REST API Security Basics

  Baseline security practices for REST APIs, covering HTTPS enforcement, authentication, rate limiting...

• REST API Validation Errors

  How to return consistent, machine-parseable validation error responses from a REST API when client d...

• REST API Versioning

  How and when to version a REST API, covering URL versioning, header-based versioning, and best pract...