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How we think about API design

Morgan LeeDecember 10, 20243 min read

Sample demo post — replace with your own content before shipping. The notes below are illustrative of the kind of engineering essay a developer platform might publish.

Consistency over cleverness

We try to make our endpoints boring. Every resource follows the same pagination model, the same error shape, and the same versioning rules. Cleverness in one corner of the API usually becomes friction everywhere else.