Designing a Successful API Strategy

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Join the DZone community and get the full member experience. But, it’s just as important to manage the communication of data and ensure its seamless flow not only internally, but also with external sources, such as partners and clients.

While speed and performance are critical in lightweight APIs, data APIs have the following traits: Data APIs trigger business transactions of some sort. Data APIs are based on underlying business processes that are initiated, including a series of services interactions and backend calls often referred to as “orchestration.”

While the characteristics of data APIs that have been mentioned above are a must, cloud-based data APIs is a growing and evolving integration pattern.

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