# How to Design APIs

DevFeed: [How to Design APIs](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-to-design-apis-34680.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://newsletter.systemdesigncodex.com/p/how-to-design-apis>)

Author: Saurabh Dashora

Published: 2026-06-02T06:41:25Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [System Design Codex](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/system-design-codex.md>)

Topics: [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [Architecture & Design](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/architecture-design.md>), [interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/interface.md>), [CRUD](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/crud.md>), [GraphQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/graphql.md>), [gRPC](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/grpc.md>), [HTTP](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/http.md>), [JSON](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/json.md>), [XML](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/xml.md>)

Tags: [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [apis](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apis.md>), [crud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/crud.md>), [graphql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/graphql.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [http](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/http.md>), [interface](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/interface.md>), [json](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/json.md>), [rest](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rest.md>), [rpc](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rpc.md>)

## AI overview

A tutorial on API design covering interface contracts, resource and endpoint naming, request and response formats, API paradigms, and modeling relationships between entities.

## Source excerpt

Key considerations to keep in mind