designing-apis

To design secure APIs, establish resource-oriented modeling, versioning, error handling, and authentication standards. This approach applies to REST, GraphQL, WebSockets, and event-driven patterns, ensuring robust and scalable services for development teams.

API governance and protocol selection are managed by enforcing standards through OpenAPI and AsyncAPI guidance. This ensures consistent resource design, error formats, and security across new public APIs or internal services evolving to modern patterns.

Draft an API design plan by defining resource modeling, versioning strategies, error formats, and security protocols. This covers REST and GraphQL endpoints, applying governance rules and authentication standards to produce a robust service blueprint.

Yes, this API design approach supports event-driven patterns by providing AsyncAPI guidance. It enforces resource design, security, and governance standards specifically for WebSockets and asynchronous event architectures alongside REST and GraphQL.

Yes, you can evolve existing services to modern API patterns. It provides guidance for transitioning current architectures to robust, secure standards using REST, GraphQL, and event-driven protocols with proper versioning and governance.

Applying API governance to event-driven architectures requires careful protocol selection between WebSockets and AsyncAPI. Limitations arise when enforcing synchronous REST error handling standards onto asynchronous event streams, necessitating specific resource design adaptations.