Learning ASP.NET Web API (Video 41)

This video tutorial covers essential practices for developing scalable and responsive APIs. It begins with caching strategies and REST constraints, emphasizing the importance of client-side caching and throttling. The tutorial then explores routing in MVC and Web APIs, highlighting the benefits of attribute routing. It discusses JSON as the preferred resource representation and the use of gzip encoding for optimization. Security measures, such as using SSL, are also addressed. The video concludes with best practices for API implementation, including sorting, paging, and using location headers, and previews the next video.

Discuss the significance of using SSL in API applications.

What strategies should be employed for sending sorting and paging information to an API?