Build APIs You Won't Hate
Everyone and their dog wants an API, so you should probably learn how to build them
by Phil Sturgeon
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API development is becoming increasingly common for serverside developers thanks to the rise of frontend JavaScript frameworks, iPhone applications, and APIcentric Architecture,s. It might seem like grabbing stuff from a data source and shoving it out as JSON would be easy, but surviving changes in business logic, database schema updates, new fea...
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