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Sibiu Web Meetup
October 18, 2019
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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
Jakob Jakob Cosoroabă Cosoroabă Full Stack Developer Product Developer VP
of "git blame" Tsar of "wait what?" the smarter platform for legal intelligence
Sibiu Web Meetup #1 - Nov 23, 2018
Consumer Consumer OH so Many Government APIs Producer Producer 1M/day
request Legal Data
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
The Basics The Basics
What is a public API What is a public API
used by 3rd parties public documentation
Read-only APIs? Read-only APIs? J JA AMStack MStack
HTTPS HTTPS
Avoid NIHS Avoid NIHS Not Invented Here Syndrome Not Invented
Here Syndrome use api gateways/proxy instead of coding yourself all the basic stuff
- Pablo Ruiz Picasso Jakob NOW-
Must Do Must Do
design first design first
free thinking free thinking API endpoints don't have to follow
API endpoints don't have to follow internal structure internal structure
Versioning Versioning /v1 x-api-version=2019-10-22
Valid Documentation Valid Documentation
Errors Errors
Sane Formats Sane Formats (tweet since removed) (tweet since removed)
Error 007 Error 007
Use the Right Status Use the Right Status
HTTP Response HTTP Response Headers Headers
x-request-id x-request-id
X-RateLimit-Remaining X-RateLimit-Remaining https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1602 2624/examples-of-http-api-rate-limiting- http-response-headers
Retry-After Retry-After https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section- 7.1.3
x-credits-left x-credits-left
Cteonnt-Length Cteonnt-Length https://twitframe.com/show? url=https://twitter.com/jcsrb/status/11593896 37066051585
Don't Don't
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
products/1 products/1 products/2 products/2 products/3 products/3
POST /email/deliver POST /email/deliver
Should Do Should Do
Idempotence Idempotence
Actor Tracking Actor Tracking
Offer ASYNC Offer ASYNC
Sandbox Sandbox
Security Security
CORS CORS Signed Webhooks Signed Webhooks Known Origin Known Origin
Nice to have Nice to have
Dashboard Dashboard Multi WebHook Multi WebHook Status Page Status Page
NEVER NEVER
Remove Fields Remove Fields
DELETE with Params DELETE with Params
PUNCHCARDS PUNCHCARDS
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
Tools Tools
API Testing API Testing curl insomnia postman API Proxy API
Proxy Kong Tyk.io Express Gateway AWS/Azure Gateway
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
Thanks Thanks and don't build don't build