The Web API Checklist – 43 Things To Think About When Designing, Testing, and Releasing your APIWhen you’re designing, testing, or releasing a new Web API, you’re building a new system on top of an existing complex and sophisticated system. At a minimum, you’re building upon HTTP, which is built upon TCP/IP, which is built upon a series of tubes. You’re also building upon a web server, an application framework, and maybe an API framework. Most people, myself included, are not aware of all th
