Ask HN: Any book recommendations for API design?

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Post by oliver-rock » Thu, Aug 31, 2023, 10:19 AM UTC

Do you have any book recommendations for API design? I'm working for a company where data management was a mess and we have loads of systems that should be connected but are built completely seperate.

I'm looking for resources to help design a big change and move loads of systems over to APIs

Re: Ask HN: Any book recommendations for API design?

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Post by joshxyz » Thu, Aug 31, 2023, 10:41 AM UTC

Google for Microsoft REST API Guidelines. You'll find some links in azure and on github.

Okta is good reference too on sensible usage of JWT.

2c2c

Re: Ask HN: Any book recommendations for API design?

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Post by chrism238 » Thu, Aug 31, 2023, 11:50 AM UTC

Copied: Please check "The C Interfaces and Implementations" book by David Hanson [1]. Someone has implemented the concept using his library that you can check and use [2]. Another excellent reference is the "The Linux Programming Interface" book by Michael Kerrisk that documents most of the API available under Linux [3]. [1]https://www.amazon.com/dp/0201498413 [2]https://github.com/gon1332/gonlibs [3]https://www.amazon.com/Linux-Programming-Interface-System-Ha...

Re: Ask HN: Any book recommendations for API design?

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Post by hbcondo714 » Thu, Aug 31, 2023, 6:15 PM UTC

joshxyz wrote: post #2

Google for Microsoft REST API Guidelines. You'll find some links in azure and on github. Okta is good reference too on sensible usage of JWT. 2c2c

https://github.com/microsoft/api-guidelines/blob/vNext/Guide...

Re: Ask HN: Any book recommendations for API design?

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Post by rocketpastsix » Fri, Sep 01, 2023, 2:06 PM UTC

Build APIs You Wont Hate - Phil Sturgeon.