AEPs: API Enhancement Proposals - Design Guidelines for Consistent Network APIs
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nateb2022
Crisp on the outside, thoughtful on the inside. A keeper.
Summary
This is a GitHub repository page for AEPs (API Enhancement Proposals), which are design guidelines for building clear, consistent network APIs and clients. The repository contains documentation, configuration files, scripts, and community guidelines (code of conduct, contributing guide, etc.) for the AEP project. It appears to be a structured set of standards and best practices for API design, similar to AIPs (API Improvement Proposals) used at Google.
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