System Design
API Design: Building Interfaces That Just Work
A practical engineering guide to API design principles, REST vs GraphQL vs gRPC trade-offs, protocol selection, lifecycle management, and building scalable developer-friendly interfaces.
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Rabin Mishra
May 24, 202615 min read
Tags:#API Design REST API GraphQL gRPC System Design Backend Engineering Distributed Systems Microservices Software Architecture Cloud Engineering DevOps Protocol Design Scalability
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About the author
Rabin Mishra
IT Engineer and DevOps-focused builder
I write about resilient infrastructure, practical automation, and the lessons that come from shipping systems in the real world. The goal is simple: make complex implementation details feel approachable and useful.
