Structural Design for APIs

There are at least four different ways to structure your API designs and JSON over HTTP is not the interesting approach.

I’ve spent quite a bit of time reading, using, and designing APIs and, like so many other things in life, you do something often enough and you start to see some patterns emerge. And what I call “Structural Design” for APIs is the pattern I’ll discuss here.

The Message is the Medium

When someone wants to create an API for the web, the most common approach…