Top 6 Most Popular API Architecture Styles

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[systemBuilder]

the technologies on this page are at somewhat different layers of the protocol stack. SOAP is a pure encapsulation format (last I looked which was long ago) that can run on any transport, RESTful is HTTP-dependent, as is WebSocket, which does not define an encapsulation for transactions it just connects TCP sockets together on an HTTP proxy, gRPC is a protocol compiler meant to translate a language interface (think of it like a C++, Python, or Java interface) into the code to create the binary bits on the wire (or wireless), a process called marshalling or serialization / de-serialization. gRPC is transport independent but typically runs on TCP or UDP. GraphQL is a language that can specify json schema queries and it can minimize large transactions on the connection - good for phones or bandwidth-limited devices.

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Amazing video for an overview understanding of different API styles. I am a Data Engineer with 3 years of experience and I got a similar question on why I used REST API instead of SOAP or any other APIs. This video helped me there to explain my POV.

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