API architectural styles

An overview of the most popular API architectural styles: SOAP, REST, GraphQL, Webhook, Websocket, and gRPC.

Hi Friends,

Welcome to the 101st issue of the Polymathic Engineer. This week, we talk about API architectural styles.

APIs are ways for web applications to talk to each other and share data. But there are different ways to design and build APIs. Knowing those APIs architectures and their differences is necessary to pick the best one for a system.

Here, we…