π Identifying The Different Types Of APIs
To help me establish a handful of new buckets, Iβm thinking more critically about the different types of API functionality Iβm coming across, establishing seven new buckets:
- General Data – You can get at data across the platform, users, and resources.
- Relative Data – You can get at data that is relative to a user, company, or specific account.
- Static Data – The data doesnβt change too often, and will always remain fairly constant.
- Evolving Data – The data changes on a regular basis, providing a reason to come back often.
- Historical Data – Provides access to historical data, going back an X number of. years.
- Service – The API is offered as a service, or is provided to extend a specific service.
- Algorithmic – The API provides some sort of algorithmic functionality like ML, or otherwise.