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Developer Portal API Docs Ontology

Developer Portal API Docs Ontology

Purpose and scope
Developer eXperience Strategy
Suggest changes
API Requests
General API guidelines
API Headers
- Mandatory elements & behaviour
- Rate limiting information
API Security
- Authentication and authorization
- SSL everywhere - all the time
API versioning guidelines
API Migration Policies
Ontologies
Design Guideline

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General API guidelines

Dates and time

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Check this article for the 5 laws of API dates and times :

Law #1: Use for your dates
Law #2: Accept any timezone
Law #3: Store it in UTC
Law #4: Return it in UTC
Law #5: Don’t use time if you don’t need it