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API Design

Design understandable, secure, and evolvable APIs as stable contracts between systems and teams.

This competency path leads from a subject's foundations to confident application. Every step remains an independent node and opens its additional perspectives.

4Stages9Building blocks16–24hoursAPI_DESIGNERBACKEND_ENGINEERSoftware architecture

Choose interaction styles

Develop the central building blocks for “Choose interaction styles” and apply them to one coherent practical case.

Describe contracts

Develop the central building blocks for “Describe contracts” and apply them to one coherent practical case.

Secure access

Develop the central building blocks for “Secure access” and apply them to one coherent practical case.

Deliver and operate

Develop the central building blocks for “Deliver and operate” and apply them to one coherent practical case.

TECHNOLOGY

GraphQL

GraphQL is a query language for APIs and a runtime for executing those queries.

Your learning assignment

Place GraphQL within the stage “Choose interaction styles” and connect it to the overall learning-path goal.

Learning outcome

Explain GraphQL, apply it to a real case, and identify the most important decisions or trade-offs.

Guiding questions

1.What purpose does GraphQL serve within this stage?
2.Which decision or risk becomes visible through GraphQL?

Practice task

Apply GraphQL to a real product or system and document the situation, decision, and expected impact.

Completion criteria

The use of GraphQL is transparently justified through a concrete case.

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