Best practices for web API design

We packaged up over 15 years of experience designing and managing APIs at incredible scale with Google Cloud's API management product, Apigee.

Download this report to learn from this experience—including our most important guiding principle: considering the application developer’s point of view first. 

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• A "pragmatic REST" approach to API design
• URL design best practices
• Guidance on error handling and versioning
• Examples of good API design

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