APIs represent a significant part of any web-enabled software. With the rise of the "as-a-service" model of software delivery, APIs also offer a consistent pattern for building modular and scalable systems. Therefore, we are witnessing a radical shift in the evolution of software architecture. Instead of embedding a bunch of APIs within, entire …
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How to Design an API
Introduction This article will take you through how to design a web-based RESTful API with the OpenAPI Specification. Then, we'll have the option to take the file specification and use it to continue to design and collaborate on our API. Furthermore, this article is a sibling article of Best Practices and Principles for API Design. The two pair …
Best Practices and Principles for API Design
Introduction APIs are created in ways that redefine and stretch products, services, and organizations. Many businesses have asked themselves questions, like: How can we get more modularity? How do we take advantage of new tools and technology? Are we able to scale our infrastructure? How do we know that we're doing it …
API Design
What is API Design? API design is the process of constructing the blueprint for your API. You have the goals, objectives, and hopes for your API on sticky-notes, in emails, or in requirements. Now, you need to pull all that scattered information together into an informative representation of the result. Good API designs anticipate questions and …
Top 9 Best API Design Tools
Introduction “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” ― Isaac Newton, The Correspondence Of Isaac Newton There has been an explosion of available tooling that emerged from cloud computing's growth almost a decade ago. Developers pressing forward to do things better, make things cooler, or slick. The benefit for …
Welcoming Paw to the RapidAPI Family!
I am excited to announce that Rapid has joined forces with the team behind leading API design solution Paw and are adding it into the RapidAPI platform as RapidAPI Design. Together, we will offer a more tightly integrated workflow from designing and developing APIs with Paw, to testing and monitoring them with RapidAPI Testing, to sharing and …
Top 5 Best SoapUI Alternatives
SoapUI is an open-source API testing tool billed as the "World's Most Popular". It has a graphical interface that helps to build tests easily. But every feature described in the SoapUI documentation is like a teaser. Premium features get attention while free features pale in comparison. This is used to get people to pay for ReadyAPI (the paid …
What is API Management?
API Management API Management is a set of processes, policies, principles, and practices that allow owners to gain control over their API. The integrated systems that make-up API management are born out of a large set of questions that project managers, developers, and team leads hope to answer. Is our API secure? How can we handle who …
Top 4 Katalon Alternatives
Introduction to Katalon Katalon has a complete suite of solutions targeted for web, mobile, and desktop application testing. The Katalon Studio is their flagship test automation IDE. It also supports API testing for ensuring robust testing for functional as well as several non-functional test scenarios. The API testing solution provided by …
What is API Design? API Design Best Practices and Principals for APIs
Before any development is made on any structure or even product, there must be a well-established plan and well-informed decisions to ensure the product produces the desired functionalities. These decisions and plans make up the design process. Therefore, significant design decisions and planning lead to better outcomes. APIs are no different …
Insomnia vs. Postman vs. Paw
API Clients The market for API clients (aka REST Clients) is growing. Competition has forced many providers to give their users more features, easier workflows, and lower prices. This is great for developers that are looking to improve their API testing, descriptions, and integrations. The caveat is the difficulty in finding the right API client …
How to Create Your Own RESTful API (20+ Tutorials by Programming Language)
Creating your own RESTful API can be a great way to build a business around data you've collected or a service you've created, or it can just be a fun personal project that allows you to learn a new skill. Here’s a list of 20 tutorials on how to design your own REST API! This list has been sorted by the programming language used in the …