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API Development

3 articles in API Development.

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David Goncalves

Should You Build an API or Use Someone Else's?

Use the other system's contract when it already carries your record, and build one when your system is the thing others must call. The service page is the conversation after that.

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David Goncalves

When Should You Hire Someone to Build an API?

Hire when you can name the caller and the payload, and the alternative on the table is a shared password or a dropped file. The service page is the conversation after that.

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David Goncalves

What Is API Development?

Describe the contract: who calls, what they send, what comes back, and what failure looks like. The service page is the conversation after that.

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