API Best Practices

API (Application programming interface)

Type of API

• Open APIs
• Partner APIs
• Internal APIs
• Both Open APIs and partner APIs

Designing and Implementation the API

• Resources, CRUD implementation
• Error Handling, Protocols and protocol status codes
• Change management & Versioning
• Pagination, Partial responses 
• Service URL or Endpoints
• Methods

• GET 
• POST 
• PUT
• DELETE 

API Management Tools

• Apigee.
• IBM API management.
• Microsoft’s AZURE API management.
• MuleSoft’s Anypoint platform for APIs.

API Management

• API Gateway service.
• Developer portal.

API Securit

Vendors Communication

• RAML(RESTful API modeling language)
• Swagger
• WADL (Web Application Description Language)
• WSDL (Web Services Description Language)