Running a Public API Do's and Don'ts

1. Running a Public API Running a Public API Do's and Don'ts Do's and Don'ts Sibiu Web Meetup #7 - Oct 18, 2019 Jakob Cosoroabă
2. Jakob Jakob Cosoroabă Cosoroabă Full Stack Developer Product Developer VP of "git blame" Tsar of "wait what?" the smarter platform for legal intelligence
3. Sibiu Web Meetup #1 - Nov 23, 2018
4. Consumer Consumer OH so Many Government APIs Producer Producer 1M/day request Legal Data
5. What this talk is NOT about What this talk is NOT about SOAP vs REST vs GraphQL JSON vs XML vs GRPC JsonAPI vs WDSL
6. The Basics The Basics
7. What is a public API What is a public API used by 3rd parties public documentation
8. Read-only APIs? Read-only APIs? J JA AMStack MStack
9. HTTPS HTTPS
10. Avoid NIHS Avoid NIHS Not Invented Here Syndrome Not Invented Here Syndrome use api gateways/proxy instead of coding yourself all the basic stuff
11. - Pablo Ruiz Picasso Jakob NOW-
12. Must Do Must Do
13. design first design first
14. free thinking free thinking API endpoints don't have to follow API endpoints don't have to follow internal structure internal structure
15. Versioning Versioning /v1 x-api-version=2019-10-22
16. Valid Documentation Valid Documentation
17. Errors Errors
18. Sane Formats Sane Formats (tweet since removed) (tweet since removed)
19. Error 007 Error 007
20. Use the Right Status Use the Right Status
21. HTTP Response HTTP Response Headers Headers
22. x-request-id x-request-id
23. X-RateLimit-Remaining X-RateLimit-Remaining https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1602 2624/examples-of-http-api-rate-limiting- http-response-headers
24. Retry-After Retry-After https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section- 7.1.3
25. x-credits-left x-credits-left
26. Cteonnt-Length Cteonnt-Length https://twitframe.com/show? url=https://twitter.com/jcsrb/status/11593896 37066051585
27. Don't Don't
28. do not use a browser do not use a browser for testing too much for testing too much magic magic ♂ ♂ ♂ ♂ ♂ ♂ https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt
29. products/1 products/1 products/2 products/2 products/3 products/3
30. POST /email/deliver POST /email/deliver
31. Should Do Should Do
32. Idempotence Idempotence
33. Actor Tracking Actor Tracking
34. Offer ASYNC Offer ASYNC
35. Sandbox Sandbox
36. Security Security
37. CORS CORS Signed Webhooks Signed Webhooks Known Origin Known Origin
38. Nice to have Nice to have
39. Dashboard Dashboard Multi WebHook Multi WebHook Status Page Status Page
40. NEVER NEVER
41. Remove Fields Remove Fields
42. DELETE with Params DELETE with Params
43. PUNCHCARDS PUNCHCARDS
44. Our API Business hours are from 9 - 12, Our API Business hours are from 9 - 12, 13-17 Monday to Friday except Public 13-17 Monday to Friday except Public holidays holidays
45. Tools Tools
46. API Testing API Testing curl insomnia postman API Proxy API Proxy Kong Tyk.io Express Gateway AWS/Azure Gateway
47. API Definitions API Definitions RAML API Blueprint (apiary) OpenAPI Specification API Starter Kits API Starter Kits Node Laravel Rails https://github.com/feredean/node-api-starter https://github.com/joselfonseca/laravel-api https://guides.rubyonrails.org/api_app.html
48. Thanks Thanks and don't build don't build