7 articles tagged with API Design.
A good API is a promise you can keep for years. This is the map: the conventions, the protocols, and the details that make an API pleasant to use and safe to change.
A practitioner's guide to rate limiting algorithms, where to enforce them, and how to make them work across many instances with Redis.
Offset pagination is easy until your dataset grows or shifts under load; here's why cursor pagination wins for large, changing, and public APIs.
A practical look at REST and GraphQL versioning, breaking changes, deprecation policy, and the pragmatic default we actually reach for.
A practical guide to choosing between GraphQL and REST based on how your clients fetch data, cache, and evolve over time.
A practical comparison of gRPC and REST across performance, streaming, tooling, and browser support to help you pick the right one.
A practical guide to designing REST APIs that stay predictable, easy to consume, and safe as your service grows.
