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Lessons learnt from shipping APIs for Microsoft's cloud platform

http://sriramk.com/cloud-api-lessons.html
Lessons learned by Sriram Krishnan from his time at Microsoft working on the Azure APIs. This was originally published in July 2011

Highlights:
- REST conventions don’t matter…that much
- Start with how the API is going to be used, work backwards
- Reduce the cognitive load
- Make sure key actions are simple and fast, prefer chunky over chatty
- Measure and log everything
- Versioning and extensibility