API Design

Managing change and version control for service interfaces

16 July 2013

Change is an inevitable and even desirable part of distributed development. Managing the impact of that change is the difficult part, particularly when change affects the service interfaces that bind a distributed platform together.

REST services may not have standards, but they should follow conventions

17 December 2012

REST is more of an architectural style than a set of standards. That said, a service should follow certain conventions if it is to be predictable and simple to work with.