# API

> Posts on Web of Mike tagged "API".

- Canonical URL: https://webofmike.com/tags/api/
- Author: Mike Moore (https://webofmike.com/about/)
- Curated index for LLMs: https://webofmike.com/llms.txt
- Full content of every post: https://webofmike.com/llms-full.txt
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## Pages

- [Boosting Your Developer Onboarding Efficiency: Why Investing in a Developer Portal is Smarter Than Building Your Own](https://webofmike.com/boosting-developer-onboarding-efficiency/): Why investing in a developer portal solution is smarter than building your own for API documentation and developer onboarding. (2023-02-08) - markdown: https://webofmike.com/boosting-developer-onboarding-efficiency/index.md
- [Why You Should Use UUIDs in Your APIs](https://webofmike.com/why-you-should-use-uuids-in-your-apis/): Why using UUIDs instead of sequential IDs strengthens API security through obfuscation. (2019-01-04) - markdown: https://webofmike.com/why-you-should-use-uuids-in-your-apis/index.md
- [Using A Cache to Reduce Your API Response Time](https://webofmike.com/using-a-cache-to-reduce-your-api-response-time/): Strategies for implementing caching to improve API performance and developer experience. (2019-01-04) - markdown: https://webofmike.com/using-a-cache-to-reduce-your-api-response-time/index.md
- [Best Practices for Securing Your APIs](https://webofmike.com/best-practices-for-securing-your-apis/): A comprehensive look at API security covering encryption, OAuth, OpenID Connect, and more. (2019-01-04) - markdown: https://webofmike.com/best-practices-for-securing-your-apis/index.md
- [API Modeling and Design with Hypermedia and Contextual Information](https://webofmike.com/api-modeling-and-design/): Exploring hypermedia approaches to API design including JSON-LD, HAL, and Collection+JSON. (2019-01-04) - markdown: https://webofmike.com/api-modeling-and-design/index.md
- [A Microservices Primer](https://webofmike.com/microservices-primer/): An introduction to microservices architecture and how it differs from monolithic and SOA approaches. (2019-01-04) - markdown: https://webofmike.com/microservices-primer/index.md