Under The Hood: How We Built API Versioning For LinkedIn Marketing APIs
- Nihit Purwar tl;dr: "We were releasing breaking changes almost monthly with different sunset dates – making it hard for developers to test and plan their roadmap without a predictable release schedule. Unversioned APIs also blocked customers from accessing the latest features and caused internal challenges with new feature development." Nihit's discusses how his team set out to build API versioning for LinkedIn Marketing APIs.featured in #346
Best Practices For Making API Calls At Scale
- David Donnelly tl;dr: 3’s a crowd and 429’s a rate limit exceeded error. We explore best practices for making API calls at scale, the 4 most common ways rate limits are implemented, and a methodology for avoiding rate limits dynamically.featured in #331
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How To Design A Good API And Why It Matters
- Preslav Mihaylov tl;dr: Based on a 2007 talk, this post covers why APIs matter, the process of design, general principles, and briefly bullets out class, method and exception designs.featured in #266
Podcast 313: What Makes For A Great API?
- Ben Popper tl;dr: "This week with chat with Matt Biilmann, CEO of Netlify, who has been building developer tools, content management systems, and web infrastructure for more than 30 years and is recognized for coining the term “Jamstack.” He opens up about what, in his opinion, makes a great API."featured in #225
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10 Lesser-known Web APIs You May Want To Use
- Tapas Adhikary tl;dr: "In this article, I am going to talk about 10 more web APIs that are not so popular."featured in #204
How Should We Build The APIs Of Tomorrow?
- Tomer Elmalem tl;dr: "The global shift in internet traffic, plus the realities of the laws of physics, will start to challenge how we build APIs." Tomer ponders on what the future holds for API architecture.featured in #203
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Best Practices For Managing And Storing Secrets Including API Keys And Other Credentials
- Mackenzie Jackson tl;dr: "Secrets management doesn’t have a one-size-fits-all approach so this list considers multiple perspectives so you can be informed in deciding to, or not to, implement strategies."featured in #188