11 Designing an API in context
This chapter covers
- Adapting communications to goals and data
- Considering needs and limitations of consumers and provider
- Choosing an API style based on context
In the previous chapter, we started to discover that the APIs we were designing were created ignoring most of the context in which they exist. We explored the network context and how it can impact the design of APIs. But there are other contextual elements to consider in order to design APIs that will actually fulfill all your consumers' needs and also be implementable. As we’ve seen, designing APIs requires us to focus on the consumers first, but it also requires us to keep an eye on the provider’s side.
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