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Honest Take — Before You Begin
Honest reflections on building interfaces other developers trust
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Course · 6 lessons
~43 hr
Intermediate
API Design & Architecture
Master REST API design, GraphQL, authentication, versioning, serialization, and the patterns that make APIs robust, maintainable, and pleasant to use.
reading · we frame, you read MIT or the canonical
taught · we author, no canonical fits
↺ spirals back to earlier lessons
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Complete Testing Mastery first.
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Read: Master Ruby Web APIs
Approach: READ cover-to-cover
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JSON:API Specification
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L3
Read: APIs on Rails
Approach: READ cover-to-cover
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JSON:API Specification
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L4
Read: Efficient APIs with GraphQL and Rails
Approach: READ cover-to-cover
primary
JSON:API Specification
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Module Checklist
Work through each item before the checkpoint.
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Checkpoint: Build a production-quality API with: JWT authentication, ...
Build a production-quality API with: JWT authentication, versioning (v1/v2), cursor-based pagination, rate limiting, comprehensive error responses, and OpenAPI documentation. Then…
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6 lessons. Read in order; spiral back when you need to. By the end you'll have used the core ideas twice — once on the abstract, once on something you'll meet at work next week.