GlueCon 2013 Notes: An Architectural Look at Designing e-commerce APIs – Saranyan Vigraham, BigCommerce

An Architectural Look at Designing e-commerce APIs – Saranyan Vigraham, BigCommerce (@saranyan)

• Bad Design
  • Rigid – too hard to change, too many parts get affected by a change
  • Fragile – unexpected breaks
  • No re-usability – it’s part of the “core code”
• Everything is mobile, but is has forced us to re-think the important of the platform
• “Where is your API?” is now popular
• Commonly, each tier requires its own service stack (web, mobile) that all integrate to the datastore(s)
• API-first architecture approach gaining traction
• “Everything is a service” – all tiers/devices connect to the API layer
• Segregate interfaces and integration to the API (not the details) aka Liskov substitution