API Design Patterns

API Design Patterns lays out a set of design principles for building internal and public-facing APIs.

Summary

A collection of best practices and design standards for web and internal APIs.

In API Design Patterns you will learn:

    Guiding principles for API patterns
    Fundamentals of resource layout and naming
    Handling data types for any programming language
    Standard methods that ensure predictability
    Field masks for targeted partial updates
    Authentication and validation methods for secure APIs
    Collective operations for moving, managing, and deleting data
    Advanced patterns for special interactions and data transformations

API Design Patterns reveals best practices for building stable, user-friendly APIs. These design patterns can be applied to solve co