November 07, 2024

API Guide

Tips to Build and Grow API Platforms

Best practices and API tools to help you build awesome APIs and improve developer experience. The purpose of API Guide is to provide resources, best practices, implementation tutorials, and awesome tools to developers of REST and GraphQL APIs.

Getting Started

Get Started with API Development with beginner's api-guide and tutorials.

Types of APIs

Discussion on REST vs GraphQL and binary serialization like ProtoBuf and MessagePack.

Design Patterns

API design guidelines and best practices while avoiding technical debt.

Debug & Monitor

How to debug and monitor your APIs efficiently and avoiding 4am wake up calls.

API Analytics

Using API analytics effectively to improve your API design and usage.

APIs in Production

Managing your APIs in production and ensuring high availability.

GraphQL Best Practices

Complete GraphQL resources for beginner and experts

Dev Experience

Improve the experience of developers (DX) using your APIs, both internally and externally

Dev Relations

Improve Developer Relations using your APIs, both internally and externally

The Next Platform

New trends in API architecture such as serverless and blockchain.

eBooks

Learn more about building better API products

API Resources for popular languages

Node.js

Python

Ruby

PHP

Go

C#

Java

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