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Comprehensive Guide to Building APIs

This document outlines a comprehensive roadmap for building APIs, covering essential topics such as HTTP methods, REST principles, and different API styles including JSON, SOAP, and GraphQL. It also addresses API security best practices, performance metrics, and testing strategies, along with compliance standards like GDPR and HIPAA. The roadmap serves as a guide for developers to understand and implement effective API design and management.

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Comprehensive Guide to Building APIs

This document outlines a comprehensive roadmap for building APIs, covering essential topics such as HTTP methods, REST principles, and different API styles including JSON, SOAP, and GraphQL. It also addresses API security best practices, performance metrics, and testing strategies, along with compliance standards like GDPR and HIPAA. The roadmap serves as a guide for developers to understand and implement effective API design and management.

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Building APIs

URL, Query & Path Parameters


What are APIs

Content Negotiation
HTTP Learn the Basics

Understand TCP / IP
HTTP Versions
Basics of DNS
HTTP Methods

HTTP Status Codes REST Principles

Different API Styles


HTTP Headers URI Design

Cookies Versioning Strategies

CORS RESTful APIs


Handling CRUD Operations

HTTP Caching Simple JSON APIs

SOAP APIs Building JSON / RESTful APIs

Visit GraphQL Roadmap GraphQL APIs

gRPC APIs Pagination

Rate Limiting
API Authentication and Authorization
Idempotency

HATEOAS

Authentication Methods RFC 7807 - Problem Details for APIs Error Handling

Basic Auth
Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
Token Based Auth Authorization Methods
Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC)
JWT

OAuth 2.0 API Keys & Management API Documentation Tools

Session Based Auth

Common Vulnerabilities
Swagger / Open API
API Security Best Practices Best Practices
[Link]

API Performance Best Practices Stoplight


API Security
Postman

API Performance

Unit Testing

API Integration Patterns


Integration Testing
Performance Metrics

Caching Strategies Functional Testing

Synchronous vs Asynchronous APIs Load Testing


Load Balancing

Event Driven Architecture


Rate Limiting / Throttling

API Gateways API Testing


Profiling and Monitoring

Performance Testing Microservices Architecture

Webhooks vs Polling Mocking APIs


Error Handling / Retries

Batch Processing Contract Testing


Rabbit MQ
Messaging Queues
Kafka

Web Sockets
GDPR API Lifecycle Management Real-time APIs
Server Sent Events
CCPA

PCI DSS Standards and Compliance

HIPAA

PII

DevOps Roadmap

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