Hands-On RESTful API Design Patterns and Best Practices

Optimized APIs

This section discusses adopting better optimization for the API. There's no concept of one-size-fits-all. In the real world, multiple APIs may support the same service as that service might be serving different types of users and use cases. As we quoted earlier in this chapter, the API should be modeled after the design according to the use case it fulfils and not by the backend services or applications it exposes.

So optimization applies to a specific business request in a particular context. Let's take an example, a web service enables its mobile app consumers to clear electricity bills. In the context of the mobile, the constraints of mobile application should be our primary consideration, as a mobile app is sensitive to ...