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How to Provide a Web API

Alex Bosworth lays it down in 5 simple rules.

What are a few simple rules for providing a web API?

  1. Keep it clean and simple
  2. Stick to standards
  3. Make it about data
  4. Keep it working
  5. Design for updates http://www.sourcelabs.com/blogs/ajb/2006/08/how_to_provide_a_web_api.html

Link via Jeremy Zawodny’s Linkblog.

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