rest

4 articles

• API Versioning Without Regret: URLs, Headers, and Sunset Policies Compared

  Compare URL, header, and media-type versioning on real tradeoffs, and design a sunset policy that retires old versions without breaking clients.

  • api-versioning
  • api-design
  • rest
  • developer-experience
  Comparison

  APIs & platforms
  

• Cursor Pagination for Real APIs: Ordering Guarantees, Opaque Tokens, and Edge Cases

  Implement cursor pagination that stays correct under inserts and deletes, with stable ordering, opaque tokens, and honest handling of filters.

  • pagination
  • api-design
  • databases
  • rest
  Tutorial

  APIs & platforms
  

• gRPC vs REST vs GraphQL for Internal APIs: A Decision Guide with Working Examples

  The same internal service built three ways: compare gRPC, REST, and GraphQL on contracts, payloads, streaming, and operability, then decide with a framework you can reuse.

  • grpc
  • rest
  • graphql
  • api-design
  • microservices
  Comparison

  APIs & platforms
  

• API Errors Worth Reading: Adopting RFC 9457 Problem Details

  Replace ad-hoc error JSON with RFC 9457 problem details: a standard envelope, extension members for validation, and a migration path that keeps old clients working.

  • api-design
  • rfc-9457
  • error-handling
  • rest
  • express
  Tutorial

  APIs & platforms