Monthly Archives: January 2021

Stop making this API design mistake, stop returning just a value in your API responses. Always return an object | #API Design Tip

Web APIs SHOULD NOT just return a boolean, string or a number/integer value in the response body for any response. Take the following. If you have an operation which for a successful (2XX) creation operation, returns just the value of the new object’s identifier in the response body, like the below examples, then you are opening yourself to… Read More »

Event-Driven VS Request-Driven Architecture: The Pros & Cons and Trade-offs of event driven systems

Event-Driven VS Request-Driven Architecture, User Registration Example (Pros & Cons) In this post, I am running you through two different approaches for implementing a user registration process to share the trade-offs, the differences and the advantages and disadvantages between the two different architectural patterns. Note – This post is the written version of my YouTube Post of the… Read More »