Everything I know about good API design

Anyone else old enough to remember when "API" also meant something that had nothing to do with sending and receiving JSON over HTTP? In some cases, you could even make something that your users would install locally, and use without needing an Internet connection.

APIs are for providing accessibility - to provide access to interactions and data inside an application from the outside.

The format and protocol of communication was never fixed.

In addition to the rest api’s of today, soap, wsdl, web sockets could all can deliver some form of API.

CORBA

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