Like any other type of software, also Web Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) evolve
over time. In the case of widely used API, introducing changes is never a trivial task …

Microservice architectures emphasize kee** components small, to foster autonomy, low
coupling and independent evolution. In this large-scale empirical study we measure the size …

Refactoring is an essential agile practice for software evolution. While program-internal code-
level refactoring is well established, architecture-level refactoring has been researched but …

Composing Web APIs is a widely adopted practice by developers to speed up the
development process of complex Web applications, mashups, and data processing …

The API Rate Limit pattern controls the rate at which clients make API requests by counting
the number of requests in a specified time interval and reacting against abusive clients, in …

In distributed systems, remote Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) let architectural
components such as microservices communicate with each other; interoperability and …

Despite the clear need for and importance of performing empirical studies as part of software
architecture research, there is still a lack of curated, standardized, clean, well-maintained …

Abstract Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) enable interaction, integration, and
interoperability among applications and services, contributing to their adoption and …

OAS2tree is a tool designed to transform OpenAPI Specification (OAS) documents into tree-
like visualizations, aiding in the understanding and navigation of the structure of REST APIs …

Domain-driven design (DDD) is often applied when implementing microservices or
communicating through APIs in distributed systems. APIs expose a published language that …