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REST framework

Growingest.Started 7 Sept 20261 min read#system-design#engineering

Inspired by API Design in System Design Interviews w/ Meta Staff Engineer

Where it sits: API design

REST favours plural nouns.
Use path parameters for mandatory parameters, and use query parameters for optional ones.

Rest is good for public facing Apis, easy to reason about

Http for external is good because of human readable. I found that some tools deal better with http and human readable data for debugging too, depends on the tooling used perhaps

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