NexQloud Knowledge Base

Best Practices for Enterprise-Grade APIs

• Security First: Always implement authentication (verifying identity) and authorization (verifying permissions). Use the Nexqloud IAM platform for robust access control.‍
• Throttling and Rate Limiting: Protect your backend services from abuse and ensure fair usage by limiting the number of requests a user can make in a given time frame.‍
• Comprehensive Documentation: Provide clear, interactive documentation (often auto-generated from your OpenAPI spec) to empower other developers to use your API effectively.‍
• Meaningful Error Handling: Return standardized, human-readable error messages with appropriate HTTP status codes to help clients troubleshoot issues.‍
• Idempotency for Mutations: Design POST, PUT, and PATCH operations to be idempotent, meaning making the same request multiple times has the same effect as making it once. This prevents duplicate charges or actions in case of network retries.