Require that APIs return links alongside their data where it helps consumers navigate related resources, discover available actions, and follow state transitions without hardcoding URLs. APIs should treat hypermedia as a first-class design tool, using consistent link relations so that a client can move through the API by following links rather than by assembling paths from documentation and guesswork. I know hypermedia can be overdone, so I am not asking for dogma, I am asking for links where they reduce coupling and make integrations more resilient. When responses carry their own navigation, our APIs stay interoperable and clients survive change far more gracefully.
Hypermedia (Design)
Strategies
APIs Are Interoperable Across Systems
All APIs must prioritize interoperability by using standard media types, hypermedia link relations, and well-known specifications, enabling consumers to integrate multiple APIs together and reducin...
APIs Support Event-Driven and Asynchronous Patterns
APIs that require event-driven or asynchronous communication must follow consistent standards for webhook registration, payload formats, retry policies, and delivery guarantees, enabling reliable a...
Experiences
Interoperability
Interoperability is the experience of APIs, systems, and data working together without heroic effort. It is built on shared standards, common schema, and predictable contracts that let one system t...
Discovery
The average enterprise maintains approximately 0.5 APIs per employee, making it a constant challenge to track the growing inventory of HTTP APIs being produced and consumed. Enterprises often addre...
Integration
Integrating digital resources and capabilities into other systems using HTTP APIs is commonplace in any enterprise. However, the experience, skills, time, and cost required for successful integrati...
Lifecycle
design_services Design Design
Design is where the human experience of an API is won or lost. I work design-first, shaping the paths, schema, errors, and naming in the contract before development begins, so that consistency is b...
