Signals from Our Futures Past

Signals from Our Futures Past

When API Clients Have a Mind of Their Own

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Mike Amundsen
Jul 07, 2025
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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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