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Ask HN: What are good reads for designing APIs?
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#2Check this one:
Build APIs You Won't Hate - Phil Sturgeon
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#3I think if you have the time you should read SICP. It is not just about APIs, but my understanding of good APIs too increased a lot after reading this.
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#5Microsoft's REST API Guidelines are newly hosted on Github and were posted here last month with plenty of discussion:
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#7You should checkout the ØMQ guide. They do such a good job of first defining the problem space, and then establishing the design patterns they use to solve it.
The code examples almost become irrelevant because they make the patterns so clear.
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#8Apigee's book is great:
https://pages.apigee.com/rs/apigee/images/api-design-ebook-2...
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#9Heroku's Interagent is a set of practical guidelines for building APIs based on their Platform API: https://github.com/interagent/http-api-design
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#10The Little Manual of API Design (Trolltech/Nokia):
http://people.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~jblanche/api-design.pdf
How to Design a Good API and Why it Matters (Josh Bloch): http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAb7hSCtvGw