When API Clients Have a Mind of Their Own
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There was a time, not so long ago, when designing an API meant naming things carefully, arguing over whether PUT or PATCH was more RESTful, and shipping something human-readable to go along with the working code. We worried about rate limits, pagination, and versioning. And our consumers? They were human too.
That’s all changed. Again.
Today’s API traffic…
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