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When should you not create API?
When not to create REST APIs
- It already has an API. Your system already has an API.
- It Will Break. Your API will break.
- It Will Change. Ha!
- It Will Be Slow. Your API will be slow.
- It Will Be Hard To Parse. I am sure many of you parsed JSON documents. “
- 6: It Will Not Make You Money.
- Conclusion.
Do I need an API for my application?
“There is a need to have a powerfully designed API to allow for protection of sensitive information.” Brail said security provisions or limits can be built into an API to control data access. “You can also have an audit trail in the API that would make it possible to see who accessed the data and when.”
When should I make an API?
In general, consider an API if:
- Your data set is large, making download via FTP unwieldy or resource-intensive.
- Your users will need to access your data in real time, such as for display on another website or as part of an application.
- Your data changes or is updated frequently.
Why do I need an API for my database?
Just about every mobile and web application is backed by at least one database. These applications often require a web-based API to expose the database (s) for storing, querying, and retrieving necessary application data. How can we build an API that exposes our application data but also ensure API longevity to support future needs?
Is it better to use one database per application?
Space is cheap these days, so I’d advise to use one database per application. Sharing one database for amongst multiple applications has some serious disadvantages: The more applications use the same database, the more likely it is that you hit performance bottlenecks and that you can’t easily scale the load as desired.
What happens if you wrap a database in an API?
While it would be great to have every API client send the right data in the right format every time, this isn’t always the case. If you are wrapping a database in an API, data validation is often forgotten, leading to ingestion of bad data or failed database queries.
How to create web API in Microsoft Docs?
(Or select New Project on the Start page.) In the New Project dialog, select Web in the left pane and ASP.NET Web Application (.NET Framework) in the middle pane. Name the project BookService and select OK. In the New ASP.NET Project dialog, select the Web API template. Select OK to create the project.