{"id":29125,"date":"2018-12-20T18:09:49","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T16:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=29125"},"modified":"2018-12-20T18:09:56","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T16:09:56","slug":"picking-the-right-api-paradigm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2018\/12\/20\/picking-the-right-api-paradigm\/","title":{"rendered":"Picking the right API Paradigm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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There are not many people who I trust on the subject of API design like I do Phil Sturgeon<\/a>. He has been a prominent speaker both online and at numerous conferences, covering a variety of problems, solutions, and approaches in the API design domain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In one of his recent blog posts<\/a>, he shared a diagram (see above) which provides a clear illustration on which API paradigm – REST, GraphQL, or RPC – one should pick for a web application, based on a variety of criteria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think this is probably the simplest of all the explanations I’ve seen around.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

There are not many people who I trust on the subject of API design like I do Phil Sturgeon. He has been a prominent speaker both online and at numerous conferences, covering a variety of problems, solutions, and approaches in the API design domain. In one of his recent blog posts, he shared a diagram … Continue reading Picking the right API Paradigm<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Picking the right API Paradigm #WebDev #API #REST #RPC #GraphQL #standards #BestPractices","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,18,62,1334],"tags":[2404,3069,3531,3617,3224,278,1216,1330],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-29125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-programming","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-api","tag-best-practices","tag-graphql","tag-phil-sturgeon","tag-rest","tag-rpc","tag-standards","tag-web-development"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t