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API Style

API style describes the architectural and design choices for a programming interface (e.g., REST, GraphQL, gRPC), defining resource models, communication patterns, and error handling. Choosing an API style has strong effects on scalability, consistency, integration, and operations and requires trade-offs between simplicity, performance, and interoperability.

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Baseline data

Context
Organizational level
Enterprise
Organizational maturity
Intermediate
Impact area
Technical
Decision
Decision type
Architectural
Value stream stage
Build
Assessment
Complexity
Medium
Maturity
Established
Cognitive load
Medium

Context in the model

Structural placement

Where this block lives in the structure.

Theme space
Software & Architecture
Theme area
Backend
Segment
Interface
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Relations

Connected blocks

Directly linked content elements.

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Application Programming Interface (API)
Concept
Representational State Transfer (REST)
Concept