Instead, it is a pattern used for defining your API endpoints. Why use the REPR design pattern? The MVC (model-view-controller) pattern has traditionally been used to build API endpoints.

By understanding API design patterns, and following best practices, you can create APIs that are reliable, scalable, maintainable, and easy to use.

A two-part series of articles about API design at Netflix was recently published in the company’s technology blog. It describes how they solved the problem of ignoring irrelevant message fields ...