APIs & service contracts
Software engineering & architecture
APIs & service contracts
An API contract describes what a service accepts and returns. Explicit compatibility rules help consumers change safely.
Resources
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Building Microservices (2nd edition)Book · Sam Newman · Amazon affiliate link, opens Amazon in a new tabGoogle Cloud API design guideReference · Google · opens in a new tabZalando RESTful API guidelinesReference · Zalando · opens in a new tabOpenAPI SpecificationReference · OpenAPI Initiative · opens in a new tabParallel change (expand and contract)Article · Danilo Sato · opens in a new tabThe Pragmatic Programmer (20th anniversary edition)Book · David Thomas, Andrew Hunt · Amazon affiliate link, opens Amazon in a new tabA Philosophy of Software Design (2nd edition)Book · John Ousterhout · Amazon affiliate link, opens Amazon in a new tabModern Software EngineeringBook · David Farley · Amazon affiliate link, opens Amazon in a new tabSoftware Engineering at GoogleBook · Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, Hyrum Wright · Amazon affiliate link, opens Amazon in a new tab