Key Principles for Designing Effective APIs

Build APIs with common standards Keep responses clear and simple Secure your APIs Publish useful documentation

Build APIs with common standards

Use REST standards, as most cloud applications rely on REST for API data transfer. They’re well established, with many effective and widely used practices.

Keep responses clear and simple

A developer’s ease of working with your APIs largely depends on how well-structured and user-friendly your API responses are.

Secure your APIs

Always use SSL/TLS to secure all endpoints and resources. This ensures that client-server communication remains private, and that sensitive data is encrypted and protected.

Publish useful documentation

Your API documentation should list all supported versions, breaking changes, error codes, etc., as well as contain basic info.

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