The Fundamentals of Data API Design

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APIs are a cornerstone of the modern internet, serving an endless variety of use cases and making it possible to integrate and communicate between systems and applications. A large subset of these APIs is what we call “data APIs”: APIs that enable access to a database through structured queries.

So building a resilient data API that can handle the demands of high volumes of real-time data requires a journey back to first principles.

By doing so, you ensure that your data API can handle increased data and request volumes without sacrificing performance.

Along with a database that has the required query performance, your data API also needs to scale horizontally to handle the ever-increasing number of requests that result from your inevitably wonderful design.

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