After explaining the difference between APIs and microservices in an article for the Stoplight API Corner, I wrote a follow-up piece talking about API design for microservices. Even though microservices APIs seem small, it’s important to design them well to build a microservices architecture that performs well. Apart from performance considerations, such as designing non-chatty interfaces, you also need to maintain loose coupling and pay attention when modeling your domain. To learn more, you can read the full post “Designing APIs for Microservices” in Stoplight’s API Corner, which they just migrated off Medium and onto their website. The new blog also has author pages, so you can find an overview of everything I’ve written for Stoplight here.

Disclosure: This work was paid for by Stoplight.