Characteristics of Effective APIs — Architecture Visualizer

STEP 01 / 09 REST & L7 GATEWAY

1. Resource Path Design

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Architectural Principle

Noun-oriented hierarchical URLs decouple HTTP action semantics from resource identity.

JWT Auth Token

Payload Schema

Idempotency-Key

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1. WAF & Schema Validator

GATEWAY STAGE 1

Validates URI structure, JSON schema types, and rejects malformed requests before downstream compute.

INPUT CONTRACT

Raw HTTPS Request

OUTPUT CONTRACT

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