You can't "grow" a fluent API; you need to understand how developers will need (and expect) to use your API. Here's a case study of what the design process for a fluent API looks like. In my previous ...

Today Apiary introduced Apiary for Enterprise to promote API design best practices across distributed development teams. This new offering provides the tooling to ensure API designs conform to ...

Google's Awareness API and tools -- designed to passively monitor signals and user context -- will likely garner corporate interest on multiple fronts as a way to better target customers. Like most ...

I have a C++ API design/best practices question that I'd like some thoughts on. I have an object representing some hierarchical data that I've deserialized out of XML (modification isn't an issue here ...

There are a handful of best practices businesses should adopt to avoid accidental or malicious data exposure via APIs. Here are three. In an ideal world, APIs are intended to streamline cloud ...