How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters

Nice article. I'd also highly recommend "How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters" video from Joshua Bloch (co-author of Java). He digs much deeper, mostly at code level rather than JSON level but the same principles apply. Even though this video is almost 20 years old, the topics are as significant today as they were back then. ▶ this video

I'm building a public API in my current job and, a few weeks ago, I was scouting around for the good API design advice. Absolutely far and away the best resource that I found was this Google TechTalk by Joshua Bloch: ▶ this video If you're interested in the topic and haven't seen it yet, I urge you to do so ASAP.

Obviously, this is marketing rather than a serious treatment of the topic. It seems to basically say: "in order to design a system, you should have a regular undergraduate Computer Science education" which seems maybe like a prerequisite (and maybe informative about their hiring process) but not very useful. However, for what it's worth, the two best resources I've seen for systems design are: Hints for Computer System Design: link How to Design a Good API: ▶ this video What else should be in this bibliography?

Here are some of my favorites: How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters ▶ this video Agile Methods The Good, the Hype and the Ugly link

a.) On java - one hour talk but good: * How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters ▶ this video b.) General code structure - dont to read it cover to cover unless you like to, you will die of boredom, but definitely have a look in library. It will help you to think about code structure right way. * Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code * Code Complete c.) Object Oriented Programming * Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented The three books I recommended are older, but not much changed in basics of object oriented programming. They are well readable. I would also recommend to read something on functional programming, mostly so that you see another approach too and thus wont go too far with object design where it does not suits. d.) 8.) I read awesome book on estimations, I really really hope it is this one: * Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art tldr: There is difference between negotiation and estimation, make sure you know which you are doing. Split it into smaller tasks and then estimate minimum, maximum and most likely. Then calculate (min+4*likely+max)/6. Surprisingly, it works and is faster then do one estimate. It is also more precise then anything else I tried. I really hope I shown you right book. e.) On Spring and rest, I would recommend to read documentation and write own code. I don't recall a book that would blow my mind, so I guess any will do. f.) For general "latest tech" learning, I like link site. There are mostly techie te

How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters [0] The Principles of Clean Architecture [1] The State of the Art in Microservices by Adrian Cockcroft [2] "The Mess We're In" by Joe Armstrong [3] [0] ▶ this video [1] link [2] link [3] link

Don't miss Joshua Bloch (from "Effective Java" fame) great presentation: How to design a good API and why it matters ▶ this video and the accompanying slides: link

I highly recommend this ~hour long talk given by Josh Bloch a few years ago, it is quite good and gives plenty of concrete examples: ▶ this video

I highly recommend the following talk by Joshua Bloch: "How to design a good API and why it mattes" [1]. Key points: - When in doubt, leave it out - you can never remove things from an API but always add to it. - Write several clients of the API to get a good feel how its used. Three is usually enough, one is not. [1] ▶ this video

Single best is difficult, here are some favourites of mine: "You and your research" by Richard Hamming: link "How to design a good API and why it matters" by Joschua Bloch: ▶ this video Google TechTalk on Git by Linus Torvalds: link All talks ever given by Alan Kay, for example: link

How about this to start? "How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters" -- a great talk by Joshua Bloch (also the author of "Effective Java") ▶ this video

Not specifically about web service APIs, but you might enjoy this talk by Joshua Bloch [1]: "How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters": ▶ this video [1] link