Tagged “rest-api”

30 Jul 2026

REST API Design: The Constraints and HTTP Semantics Everyone Skips (Part 1 of 3)

Part 1 of a REST API design series: what REST actually is, Fielding's six constraints, and the HTTP methods and status codes most APIs get subtly wrong.

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06 Aug 2026

REST API Design: Resources, Versioning, and Auth That Hold Up (Part 2 of 3)

Part 2 of a REST API design series: naming resources so they don't need a manual, versioning without breaking clients, choosing an auth pattern, and structuring errors.

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13 Aug 2026

REST APIs in Production: Pagination, HATEOAS, and the Patterns That Actually Matter (Part 3 of 3)

Part 3 of a REST API design series: pagination, HATEOAS, filtering and search, rate limiting, idempotency keys, and the practices that separate a demo API from a production one.