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How to Design a Good API and Why it Matters Joshua Bloch Principal Software Engineer 1 _How to Design a Good API and Why it Matters Why is API Design Important? • 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 • Can also be among company's greatest...

Classic system design paper by Saltzer, Reed, and Clark. This paper presents a design principle that helps guide placement of functions among the modules of a distributed computer system. The principle, called the end-to-end argument, suggests that functions placed at low levels of a system may be redundant or of little value when compared with the cost of providing them at that low level.