And will adding the async keyword to my .NET api make it asynchronous? No not in the sense of asynchronous architecture. let me explain. A Restaurant Analogy Let’s take a real-life example of a restaurant. And at this restaurant customers need to go to the counter to get served. In the first example, the server has NOT been… Read More »
Following AWS Reinvent 2021 I’d like to share some of the golden nuggets I have taken away from the keynote regarding #apis ⁃ Primitives not frameworks (don’t build the kitchen sink, build small components) ⁃ Join small components to build larger complex systems ⁃ #APIs enable customer-centric innovation ⁃ Trying to create uniform APIs before you understand the… Read More »
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 »
Six reasons why you, and your company should adopt an API first approach. And why they are critical to your company’s future.??
Naming conventions of properties defer slightly in .NET and JavaScript. .NET uses?pascal-case and JavaScript uses camel-case. When developing a .NET API all the public properties should use the naming convention pascal-case. However if the service is consumed as an API with a JavaScript client then the json returned should be camel-case. Now you could go and add the… Read More »