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Top 10 API Pitfalls

by martin on September 30th, 2010

Rick Nucci wrote this article exposing 10 of the most common API pitfalls that he has encountered in Web services code (also known as Software as a Service, or Saas). His list includes problems such as exposing operations instead of objects, constantly changing the API on your users, not thinking about performance issues such as throttling services, and getting caught without a strategy for your API.

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