Best practices and guidelines for designing an API

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What are some guidelines and best practices that I can adhere to while designing an API? At the bare minimum, I know that an API should be easy to use and flexible. Unfortunately those terms can be rather subjective, so I was looking for some concrete guidelines relating to good API design.

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