API Architecture.

An API architecture describes the boundaries between a request, the work it triggers, and the result an application can rely on. For media, the expensive operation may be decoding a long video or processing many high-resolution images. That makes job state, progress, retries, and output ownership part of the design. A useful contract also distinguishes an invalid request from an unsupported input or a temporary processing failure, because each condition needs a different response from the caller.

Use this collection to connect interface decisions with the underlying media operation. Consider whether work should finish immediately or return a job identifier, how duplicate requests should behave, and which metadata makes an output traceable. The Frame API architecture overview supplies the broader context. As you read, test the proposed design against one successful request, one malformed input, and one interrupted job. Those scenarios reveal more than a polished endpoint name alone.