Designing APIs

Design well-structured, scalable APIs using REST, GraphQL, or event-driven patterns. Focus on resource design, versioning, error handling, pagination, rate limiting, and security.

When to Use This Skill

Use when:

• Designing a new REST, GraphQL, or event-driven API
• Establishing API design standards for a team or organization
• Choosing between REST, GraphQL, WebSockets, or message queues
• Planning API versioning and breaking change management
• Defining error response formats and HTTP status code usage
• Implementing pagination, filtering, and rate limiting patterns
• Designing OAuth2 flows or API key authentication
• Creating OpenAPI or AsyncAPI specifications