API engineering

Design APIs other people can depend on: REST resources and contracts, pagination and versioning, idempotency and safe retries, rate limiting, and contracts that evolve without breaking clients.

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Design resources, URLs, status codes and error bodies
Paginate with offsets and cursors and version an API
Make a payment endpoint idempotent
Rate-limit an API fairly
Evolve a contract without breaking existing clients

You build: A money-transfer API that is safe to retry and safe under load

MODULE 1

Designing APIs

1Designing a REST APITurn the Task API into a well-designed REST API: resources and URLs, a written contract, filtering, sorting, offset and cursor pagination, versioning and one consistent error format.40 min

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