Best Practices
Providers using this tag (11)
Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.
Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 2 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Emerging 2 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 6 Almost no public developer surface
APIs with this tag (11)
Ranked by the provider's API Evangelist rating — the Kin Score is scored per provider, not per API, so every API of a provider shares its band. How the rating works →
Exemplar 3 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Datadog Service Scorecards APIThe Service Scorecards API allows you to create and manage scorecard rules and outcomes. Scorecards help fo...Microsoft Azure Best Practices APIThe Best Practices API from Microsoft Azure — 2 operation(s) for best practices.API Evangelist GuidanceModular guidance for teams producing and consuming APIs — snackable real-time guidance for keeping API oper...
Developing 1 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 1 Limited public surface area
Emerging 6 Early or largely undocumented
APIGovernance.DevAPIGovernance.Dev provides automated API governance reviews using AI trained on 10,000 public APIs. It offe...Microsoft Azure REST API GuidelinesMicrosoft's official REST API design guidelines for Azure services, covering resource naming, versioning, H...Standards.RESTA curated collection of standards, conventions, and best practices for building RESTful APIs, including HAL...Zalando RESTful API and Event GuidelinesZalando's comprehensive and widely-adopted RESTful API design guidelines, covering naming conventions, HTTP...Shellharden APIAPI for correcting and hardening shell scripts for better reliability.Richardson Maturity ModelA model by Leonard Richardson that breaks down the maturity of a RESTful API into four levels: Level 0 (The...
Companies reaching this through an API (8)
These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Best Practices” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.
Score breakdown
Frequency
37.3
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.3
spread across providers
Quality lift
19.5
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
0.7
strength of nearest seed neighbor
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