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Use links not keys to represent relationships in APIs

by Martin Nally cloudblog.withgoogle.com published 2019-05-10

While links aren’t widely used in APIs, some very prominent web APIs use links based on HTTP URLs to represent relationships, which has several advantages. This post shows you why.

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