API Development — 8 Habits for Integration-Ready APIs

APIs are the connective tissue of modern software. They let products share data, trigger workflows, and support the kinds of automations customers expect as standard. Good API development means thinking beyond whether the API functions correctly in isolation. An API that’s technically sound but difficult to integrate with will create friction for anyone that tries to connect to it. That friction has a habit of turning into an integration backlog and a development team drowning in integration requests with no clear way out.