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How to Design a Good API and Why it Matters1
How to Design a GoodAPI and Why it Matters
Joshua Bloch
Principal Software Engineer
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How to Design a Good API and Why it Matters2
Why is API Design Important?
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APIs can be among a company's greatest assets
_ Customers invest heavily: buying, writing, learning _ Cost to stop using an API can be prohibitive _ Successful public APIs capture customers
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Can also be among company's greatest liabilities
_ Bad APIs result in unending stream of support calls
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Public APIs are forever - one chance to get it right
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Why is API Design Important
to You
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If you program, you are an API designer
_ Good code is modular–each module has an API
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Useful modules tend to get reused
_ Once module has users, can’t change API at will _ Good reusable modules are corporate assets
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Thinking in terms of APIs improves code quality
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How to Design a Good API and Why it Matters
Every day around the world, software developers spend much of their time working with a variety of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Some are integral to the core platform, some provide access to widely distributed frameworks, and…
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