API Architecture - What Is a Typical Request and How Does It Get Translated?

Can you talk about how the API is architected and how it translate like if we're talking about the API for just on demand data. What is a typical request and how does that request get translated into a query against the database? Yeah. There's usually, so our first most common entry point is our search. Typically what people are trying to figure out is that given a set of criteria, what places meet this criteria?