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API-First Design

API-First Design: Robust and documented APIs for system integration

Definition

API-centric design, documenting contracts before development.

Usage example

Design of documented RESTful APIs with OpenAPI, semantic versioning, rate limiting, JWT authentication, performance-optimized endpoints.

Synonyms

API-first designContracts firstAPI specification

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