Mobile System Design - REST API Explained for Mobile Engineers (by Ex-Meta Lead Engineer)

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8.5 hours of video
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REST API mobile app development iOS development Android development API design stateless API caching pagination authentication JWT OpenAPI API versioning

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🚀 Struggling with Big Tech interview prep? Book a 1-on-1 mentorship session to master mobile system design, coding, and behavioral rounds, with realistic mock interviews and actionable feedback from an ex-Meta engineer. 👉 https://andrey-tech.com Learn how to design REST APIs for mobile apps — why statelessness matters, how to structure endpoints, handle authentication, implement pagination and caching, manage multiple API versions, and document with OpenAPI. Perfect for iOS/Android engineers and interview prep. Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:59 What Does REST Mean? 1:22 REST API Constraints 3:20 Endpoints & Resources 3:50 HTTP verbs 4:34 Endpoint Design 5:02 Parameters 5:22 HTTP Headers 5:49 Standard HTTP Response Codes 6:01 Custom Errors 6:35 Data Encoding: JSON, XML, Protobuf 7:35 Authentication with JWTs 9:01 Pagination 11:42 Caching 14:48 API Versioning 16:10 OpenAPI Documentation