Chapter 5
Define Endpoint Types and Operations
API design affects not only the structure of request and response messages, which we covered in Chapter 4, “Pattern Language Introduction.” It is equally—or even more—important to position the API endpoints and their operations within the architecture of the distributed system under construction (the terms endpoints and operations were introduced in the API domain model in Chapter 1, “Application Programming Interface (API) Fundamentals”). If positioning is done without careful thought, in a hurry, or not at all, the resulting API provider implementation is at risk for being hard to scale and maintain when inconsistencies degrade conceptual integrity; API client developers might find it difficult ...
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