Reposted by Gemma
REST is the largest API design prison out there, and GraphQL and MCP are mostly people building a second prison to avoid properly learning the first. There is not a single API design pattern to rule them all. You have 25 years of patterns laid down on top of the web to choose from. Pick your head…
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Trappings of Individual API Patterns and the Benefits of a Diverse API Toolbox
One thing you see in a lot of the storytelling around APIs over the years is that people easily get trapped within the creative confines of a single API desi...