---
title: "How to Design Better APIs"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-design-better-apis-6xsjvxcgt
source_url: https://www.quastor.org/p/how-to-design-better-apis
type: article
source: "Quastor Daily"
published: 2022-03-13T16:55:20.112Z
updated: 2026-03-15T03:48:12.800Z
tags: ["general-programming", "logging", "storage"]
reading_time: 9
upvotes: 63
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# How to Design Better APIs

**[Quastor Daily](https://daily.dev/sources/quastor)** · 9 min read · 63 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Ronald Blüthl wrote a great blog post on how to design better REST APIs with 15 language-agnostic tips. Use ISO 8601 UTC dates Version the API Pagination Provide a health check endpointPlus some tech snippets on How Netflix tests for performance regressions How gifs work How Medium does code review

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Tags: [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming), [#logging](https://daily.dev/tags/logging), [#storage](https://daily.dev/tags/storage)

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