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Web API Design Choices

by martin on September 19th, 2011

Daniel Rabinovich has put together a slide set on REST API design choices for Web-based interfaces. Daniel recommends using standard HTTP verbs, like PUT and OPTIONS. He also talks about being able to specify the returned fields (a performance optimization) and notes that selection, multiget, and search are REST violations with hidden costs (harder to cache or shard). Daniel covers a lot more topics, so see his slides for more details:

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