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Best Practices

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Providers using this tag (22)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready

API EvangelistThe index of everything available via the API Evangelist developer portal at developer.apievangelist.com — ...17 APIs70.2

Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps

DatadogDatadog is a monitoring and analytics platform that helps organizations gain insight into their infrastruct...290 APIs57.1

Developing 3 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close

Amazon Well-Architected ToolThe AWS Well-Architected Tool helps you review your workloads and compare them to the latest AWS architectu...13 APIs53.0 Amazon Trusted AdvisorAWS Trusted Advisor provides real-time guidance to help you provision your resources following AWS best pra...16 APIs41.4 Microsoft Azure AdvisorMicrosoft Azure Advisor is a personalized cloud consultant that helps you follow best practices to optimize...2 APIs39.5

Thin 2 Limited public surface area

Test-Driven DevelopmentA software development approach where tests are written before the actual code, following a red-green-refac...5 APIs35.5 Test FirstA software development approach where tests are written before the implementation code, ensuring code quali...5 APIs27.1

Emerging 8 Early or largely undocumented

TODO GroupThe TODO Group is an open community of practitioners under the Linux Foundation who collaborate on best pra...5 APIs22.1 APIGovernance.DevAPIGovernance.Dev is an AI-powered API governance platform that enforces API best practices through automat...1 API19.7 RSSRSS (Really Simple Syndication) is the canonical XML feed format family for publishing and subscribing to s...6 APIs18.2 RESTful ServicesRepresentational State Transfer (REST) services are web services built using the REST architectural style, ...5 APIs18.0 Shell ScriptingA collection of APIs and resources for Shell Scripting development, including utilities, documentation, and...5 APIs16.6 StandardizationStandardization is the process of implementing and developing technical standards based on the consensus of...14.0 RESTfulRepresentational State Transfer (REST) is an architectural style for designing networked applications using...5 APIs13.7 Design PatternsReusable solutions to commonly occurring problems in software design, including the Gang of Four catalog (c...1 API12.7

Minimal 7 Almost no public developer surface

Use CasesA curated collection of practical API use cases across industries and technical domains. Use cases describe...10.3 DevSecOpsDevelopment, Security, and Operations methodology that integrates security practices within the DevOps proc...5.7 Secure-By-DesignA software development approach that prioritizes security from the initial design phase through implementat...5.5 Secure-By-DefaultA security design principle where systems and software are configured with the most secure settings from th...5.2 Security by DesignA software development approach that integrates security considerations and practices from the initial desi...4.3 ITILITIL (IT Infrastructure Library) is a set of detailed practices for IT service management (ITSM) that focus...4.1 Quality StandardsFrameworks and benchmarks that define acceptable levels of quality for products, services, or processes to ...4.1

APIs with this tag (10)

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 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready

API Evangelist GuidanceModular guidance for teams producing and consuming APIs — snackable real-time guidance for keeping API oper...70.2

Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps

Datadog Service Scorecards APIThe Service Scorecards API allows you to create and manage scorecard rules and outcomes. Scorecards help fo...57.1

Emerging 8 Early or largely undocumented

OSPO GuidesA comprehensive collection of 23+ practitioner guides covering all aspects of running Open Source Program O...22.1 APIGovernance.DevAPIGovernance.Dev provides automated API governance reviews using AI trained on 10,000 public APIs. It offe...19.7 RSS Best Practices ProfileThe RSS Best Practices Profile is the RSS Advisory Board's normative guidance on producing RSS feeds that i...18.2 Microsoft Azure REST API GuidelinesMicrosoft's official REST API design guidelines for Azure services, covering resource naming, versioning, H...18.0 Standards.RESTA curated collection of standards, conventions, and best practices for building RESTful APIs, including HAL...18.0 Zalando RESTful API and Event GuidelinesZalando's comprehensive and widely-adopted RESTful API design guidelines, covering naming conventions, HTTP...18.0 Shellharden APIAPI for correcting and hardening shell scripts for better reliability.16.6 Richardson Maturity ModelA model by Leonard Richardson that breaks down the maturity of a RESTful API into four levels: Level 0 (The...13.7

Score breakdown

Frequency

38.2

log-scaled weighted occurrences

Breadth

0.6

spread across providers

Quality lift

26.3

mean composite of providers using it

Cohesion

3.8

strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Architecture 5 co-occurrences Standards 5 co-occurrences Security 7 co-occurrences Compliance 5 co-occurrences

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