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Hands-On RESTful API Design Patterns and Best Practices

By : Anupama Murali, Harihara Subramanian J, Pethuru Raj
Book Image

Hands-On RESTful API Design Patterns and Best Practices

By: Anupama Murali, Harihara Subramanian J, Pethuru Raj

Overview of this book

This book deals with the Representational State Transfer (REST) paradigm, which is an architectural style that allows networked devices to communicate with each other over the internet. With the help of this book, you’ll explore the concepts of service-oriented architecture (SOA), event-driven architecture (EDA), and resource-oriented architecture (ROA). This book covers why there is an insistence for high-quality APIs toward enterprise integration. It also covers how to optimize and explore endpoints for microservices with API gateways and touches upon integrated platforms and Hubs for RESTful APIs. You’ll also understand how application delivery and deployments can be simplified and streamlined in the REST world. The book will help you dig deeper into the distinct contributions of RESTful services for IoT analytics and applications. Besides detailing the API design and development aspects, this book will assist you in designing and developing production-ready, testable, sustainable, and enterprise-grade APIs. By the end of the book, you’ll be empowered with all that you need to create highly flexible APIs for next-generation RESTful services and applications.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we discussed the salient features of the RESTful services and APIs in making the road toward digitally transformed businesses and societies easier to navigate. The simplicity and modularity of the REST paradigm leads to the production of highly flexible and futuristic software applications. As the web and cloud enablement of digital assets assume a more prominent role, the role and responsibility of the REST idea are bound to increase in the days to come. We tend toward deeply connecting our everyday environments. The dream of having many cognitive environments is consistently on the rise. Hence, it's clear that the unique and innate capabilities of the mesmerizing RESTful services should be reaped in order to achieve the things described in this chapter. This chapter has given you a lot of useful information on the REST concept and how it's...