Essential Types of API Hygiene
"Brush your teeth, twice a day"
"Wash your hands before you eat"
"Shower every morning"
Human hygiene is ritualized from a young age – and for good reason. Hygiene rituals protect communities from plague, and individuals from easily preventable serious issues.
But do you see the trick? These rituals work because they have triggers attached to them.
Before you A, make sure you B. These triggers create habits in people, and turn us into well-oiled machines.
API Hygiene is the (often overlooked) set of practices and policies that you apply to incoming and outgoing data. Just like proper human hygiene protects health and reduces issues, API Hygiene insures that what comes into and goes out of your app keeps your system in running order.