Although there are many types of APIs for many different purposes, there are common aspects that should be considered independently of the use case. After reading this chapter, a foundational knowledge should be available.
General Guidelines
After becoming a member of Twitter, one of my very first tweets was the following:
When designing APIs, it will either be simple or complicated. There is little in between #APIManagement
That was in February, 2015. By the time this book is published, that statement will be three and a half years old. I have been working with APIs almost every day since then and I think that ...
