Techniques For Designing Your API and Microservices
A design that initially looks good may not be the best design to easily solve the problems at hand. Too often, our initial assumptions about our API and microservice designs…
Before you design your API, model your API
I’m often asked which is the better style of API: REST, GraphQL, or gRPC. My answer is always: “I’m not sure. What does your API model say?” At this point,…
API Design Guidance: Long-Running Background Jobs
The REST style is particularly suited for synchronous APIs, where requests generally return quickly (less than a few seconds). For operations that take a longer time to complete, it may…
Design Patterns for Handling Long-running Tasks
In today's world, users expect applications or websites to be fast, and usually, a latency of around 100 milliseconds is considered reasonable. We can improve the latency of services by…