Speaker
Abstract
Learn how to build amazing REST-based APIs that your customers will love with ten universally applicable and easy-to-follow rules. The rules are:
- Be Practical: Which content type to use when exchanging information in REST-based APIs?
- Be Methodical: How to take advantage of all the HTTP methods that are at our disposal when designing our API?
- Be Semantical: Learn about naming conventions and what their impact on modern-day REST-based APIs is
- Be Secure: Learn about the basics of any secure API in 2023. and how to implement them quickly.
- Be Consistent: Learn about consistency and what kind of an impact it has on the overall API quality and ease of use.
- Be Organized: How to properly prepare and organize your API in a scalable way?
- Be Graceful: How to properly handle errors and optimize your API for developers?
- Be Smart: How do you build an API that helps rather than gets in the way?
- Be Lean: How to ensure your responses are as optimized as possible?
- Be Considerate: How do you understand your API's impact on other teams in your organization?
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Treblle is a lightweight SDK that helps teams build, ship & maintain REST based APIs faster
76%
senior dev or higher
1:11
speaker ratio
60+
practitioners
QCon San Francisco 2023 is a three day conference for senior software engineers, architects and team leads. An international program committee of working engineers selects every session. Patterns and practices, not products and pitches.
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