Backend API architecture can be segmented into data access, SaaS, vendor dependent, and self-contained. We outline 4 predominant architectures and advise on what to consider when designing your API's architecture

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Domain-Driven Design

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An API’s architecture often mimics how it is maintained and what the service accomplishes. An API may tap into various services to support its own backend, making the architecture stack deceptively complex. A similar ecosystem may exist fueling the components that make up an API itself.

Architecting an API Backend

1) Data Access: Self Contained API Architecture

2) Data Access: Vendor Dependent API Architecture

3) Side Effects: Self Contained API Architecture

4) Side Effects: Vendor Dependent API Architecture

Aligning Feature Set with API Architecture

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