---
title: "Principles for API Design"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/principles-for-api-design-wclln15gi
source_url: https://www.quastor.org/p/principles-for-api-design
type: article
source: "Quastor Daily"
published: 2021-10-18T13:39:31.283Z
updated: 2021-10-18T13:39:31.284Z
tags: ["tech-news", "architecture"]
reading_time: 7
upvotes: 69
comments: 2
language: en
---

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# Principles for API Design

**[Quastor Daily](https://daily.dev/sources/quastor)** · 7 min read · 69 upvotes · 2 comments

## Summary

Slack has a set of 6 design principles that can help you design better APIs. Facebook had their worst outage since 2008. The issue was related to DNS, specifically BGP routing and BGP announcements. Plus, a couple awesome tech snippets on Python 3.10 Best practices for Logging.

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**@jayakornk** · 0 upvotes

> Very nice and simple principles to remind yourself while designing an API.

**@nitinreddy3** · 0 upvotes

> Nice one,

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