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title: "REST APIs | Skills We Assign For | Azendo"
description: "REST APIs — conventions that matter, versioning, plus the Azendo roles assigned for it."
url: "https://azendo.co/skills/rest-apis/"
---

[Skills](https://azendo.co/skills/) APIs and integration 

# REST APIs.

REST is an architectural style for web APIs using resources addressed by URL and standard HTTP methods and status codes. Most practical APIs follow its conventions without implementing every constraint.

## Where REST APIs fits on a long engagement.

The conventions earn their place through predictability rather than purity. Using HTTP methods and status codes as specified means clients, proxies and caches behave correctly without special handling, and a developer can guess how an endpoint works before reading the documentation.

The most consequential decisions are the unglamorous ones: how errors are represented, whether pagination is cursor or offset based, and how versioning works. Consistency across every endpoint matters more than resource modelling purity, and inconsistency is what consumers actually complain about.

## What an assigned team does with REST APIs.

Versioning has to be decided before the first external consumer, not after. Retrofitting a versioning scheme onto an API that already has integrators means breaking them or maintaining an unversioned path indefinitely.

Making that decision deliberately at the start is the kind of foresight that is cheap then and expensive later, and it is scoped under [outsource software development services](https://azendo.co/services/software-development/).

## What we use REST APIs for.

* Conventions followed consistently Methods and status codes used as specified, so infrastructure behaves correctly.
* Errors represented uniformly One error format across every endpoint, which is what consumers notice.
* Versioning decided before consumers exist A scheme in place while changing it is still free.

## How REST APIs capacity is assigned.

API development is assigned inside the discipline that owns the service, with versioning and error conventions settled at design rather than after integration.

## Roles we assign REST APIs for

* [Workflow Automation Specialist AI automation engineering](https://azendo.co/services/ai-automation-engineering/workflow-automation-specialist/)

## Service lines it sits in

* [AI automation engineering](https://azendo.co/services/ai-automation-engineering/)

Capacity is agreed as a committed monthly capacity across a discipline, not per skill.

## Related in apis and integration

* [webhooks — skill we assign for](https://azendo.co/skills/webhooks/)
* [Kafka — skill we assign for](https://azendo.co/skills/kafka/)
* [API design — skill we assign for](https://azendo.co/skills/api-design/)
* [message queues — skill we assign for](https://azendo.co/skills/message-queues/)
* [FastAPI — skill we assign for](https://azendo.co/skills/fastapi/)
* [RabbitMQ — skill we assign for](https://azendo.co/skills/rabbitmq/)
* [SQS — skill we assign for](https://azendo.co/skills/sqs/)
* [API gateways — skill we assign for](https://azendo.co/skills/api-gateways/)

## Tell us what your roadmap needs REST APIs for.

A service delivery manager replies with the disciplines we would assign, the monthly capacity and what the first month looks like.

[All skills we assign for](https://azendo.co/skills/)