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title: Discover our Refcard API Architecture Strategy
description: To facilitate and accelerate design and development of your APIs, we share our vision and beliefs with you in this Reference Card.
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# RefCard API Architecture Strategy

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## Description.

**As soon as we start working on an API,** **architecture issues arise**. Many mistaken common beliefs turn out to be fiction in this area. A poorly designed API architecture will lead to misuse or – even worse – not be used at all by its **intended clients : application developers**. 

 

**To facilitate and accelerate design and development of your APIs**, we share our vision and beliefs with you in this Reference Card. They come from our direct experience on API projects.

 

### In a Nutshell

This Reference Card pinpoints **everything you should be cautious about **while designing your **API Architecture Strategy**.

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### On the menu

 

- Which API strategy to choose? Why an API strategy?
- API big picture architecture: from SOA to WOA
- SOAP vs REST
- API architecture stakes
- API security
- API team organization
- API management
- API integration patterns

## Which API strategy to choose ? Why an API strategy ?

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