https://apicoding.com/tags/engineering-practice/ Recent content in Engineering Practice on API Coding Hugo en-us Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://apicoding.com/audit-an-api-fields-completeness-before-you-build-a-feature-on-it/ Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://apicoding.com/audit-an-api-fields-completeness-before-you-build-a-feature-on-it/ <p>An API&rsquo;s documentation lists the fields a record can have. It rarely tells you how many records actually have them. Those are different numbers, and on open data APIs the gap is often enormous.</p> <p>The failure looks like this. You read the schema, spot a field that would make a great feature, build the feature, and then discover the field is populated on four percent of the data. By then the feature is written and the pitch has been made.</p>