API Concepts

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Overview

A REST API is made up of resources and methods.

REST and Hypermedia Concepts

REST API

Websocket API

API Design

API Design or API Modeling.

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API Development

One of the artifacts of API development could be a client SDK. Tools like Swagger Codegen provide the means to generate SDK right from the API definition.

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API Documentation

Documentation can be auto-generated from an API definition, or can be generated from an existing API at runtime (see Swagger Inflector, Swagger Inspector).

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API Testing

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API Mocking and Virtualization

API development can become cumbersome as the number of dependencies on internal and external services grows. A technique to deal with that is to mock API dependencies, and interact with them before the actual service is built.

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API Governance

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API Monitoring

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OpenAPI

OpenAPI