Millions of websites are using API somehow in today's era.
It's imperative to optimize your API to provide a better user experience.
Here are five ways to optimize your API performance and make it stand out. 🧵👇🏻
1️⃣ Use rate-limiting strategy
There might be a case where the user executes a loop, causing many API requests that can slow down your API performance.
In order to avoid such scenarios, use rate-limiting factors and limit the specific number or request in the given time period.
2️⃣ Cache Requests
You can implement cache endpoints for the frequently used requests. This will reduce the number of round trips of client requests to the server and improve API performance and latency.
You can use some predefined HTTP headers to specify whether the data is stale or fresh.
The PATCH request method only updates the necessary part of the resource whereas PUT updates the entire resource.
Consider it like this, you bought a new camera online, but the lens is broken. Instead of replacing the whole camera kit, you can replace the lens only.
PATCH is faster as compared to PUT.
⚠️ There may be some cases where you can't use PATCH at the place of PUT because PATCH is not idempotent.
4️⃣ Compress Data
Massive data transactions make the API slow. Consider using compression techniques like GZip to compress the data sent through the API.
It will make the transfer faster and improve the overall performance of your API.
5️⃣ Using Appropriate Hosting
If you expect your API to see high traffic surges, make sure you use a good hosting company that provides you with enough CPUs and database instances to make your API fast.
It will solve your network-related issues.
With that being said, these are five tips to improve API performance.
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- Public API
- Private API
- Partner API
- Composite API
Let's discuss them in detail 🧵👇🏻
1️⃣ Public API
Public APIs are accessible to all developers with a low or moderate level of authentication and authorization.
For example, the Windows API of Microsoft is a public API.
Stability is an essential factor of any public API. Any changes in the public API, let's say adding a new parameter, might break the applications that depend on that API.
A quick introduction to smart contracts and decentralized API 🖇️
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Before diving into Decentralized API or dAPI, we need to understand Smart Contracts. 👇🏻
Consider Smart contracts like typical contracts but they are programmatically generated and completely digital. Smart contracts are stored on a blockchain (a system of recording information in a way that makes it difficult or impossible to change, hack, or cheat the system).
Let's talk about widely used HTTP request methods and how to test them.
In this thread, we will cover:
- GET
- POST
- PUT
- DELETE
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📌 GET
The GET method is the widely used request method. It is used to get the desired resources from the server.
For example, making a request to the /posts endpoint will return all the available posts.
One thing to note here is that we have used plural noun (/posts) for URL naming.
Using plural nouns for naming URLs is the best practice. It simply reduces the confusion about whether there are one or more posts in the resource collection.