From the course: Data Integration and API Development for AI Applications

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Steps in API design

Steps in API design

From the course: Data Integration and API Development for AI Applications

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Steps in API design

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Let's talk about the steps involved in designing a good and well-functioning API. Now designing an API involves a series of deliberate steps to ensure that it meets the functional and non-functional requirements of AI applications. If your API is well-defined, well, that lays the foundation of integrating AI capabilities into your different products. There are three steps to designing an API. The first, clearly identify the specific needs of the AI application and determine the scope and functionality of the API that you're about to expose. Next, structure your API endpoints to reflect resource hierarchies to make your API intuitive and align with RESTful principles if you're designing a REST API. And then, of course, you need to choose the right authentication mechanism, whether it's OAuth 2.0 or tokens, to provide secure access control to the API. Let's start with discussing the API's purpose and its requirements. A well-designed API is one that meets the user's requirements. What…

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