Utilizing continuous delivery approaches (e.g., via Heroku ) to push well-tested code to public servers without manual errors. Evolving and Maintaining Great APIs

Identifying the specific data elements and actions (descriptors) required for the API's job.

Implementing identity and access control through services like Auth0 .

Creating robust test collections in Postman and running them locally with Newman .

Idempotency is your safety net. If a client retries a DELETE or PUT five times, the result should be the same as one request.