Created: Sep 14, 2023
Can we solve the usability problems of the humble update API?
At its heart an API must solve five core problems, affectionately known as CRUD plus querying. Your API allows developers to create, retrieve, update, and delete information — queries being a special type of retrieve action. Compared to the complexity of queries, the main CRUD methods are often considered trivial.
Are they, though? For a relational database, a single update can...
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