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R. DorasamyAPI Marketplace Engineeringhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7313-5_7

7. API Design

Rennay Dorasamy1  
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Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
 

Crafting the interface for an API is an activity that can be considered from a number of perspectives. For a Developer, it is fairly trivial as the set of inputs and outputs are well defined and if not, can be easily added later in the process. For an Enterprise Architect, this is a burden akin to Atlas propping up the world on his shoulders as the interface should be well thought through, be reusable by multiple consumers from the present and future, and should be able to withstand any tectonic shifts from ...

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