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How to provide a web API

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tracy — Thu, 08/24/2006 - 08:27

This is a great post on how to create a web API that your customers can really use and you can easily maintain.

The article lists 5 rules for providing web APIs.

  1. Keep it clean and simple
  2. Stick to standards
  3. Make it about data
  4. Keep it working
  5. Design for updates

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