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Designing API-First Enterprise Architectures on Azure

By : Subhajit Chatterjee
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Designing API-First Enterprise Architectures on Azure

By: Subhajit Chatterjee

Overview of this book

API-centric architectures are foundational to delivering omnichannel experiences for an enterprise. With this book, developers will learn techniques to design loosely coupled, cloud-based, business-tier interfaces that can be consumed by a variety of client applications. Using real-world examples and case studies, the book helps you get to grips with the cloudbased design and implementation of reliable and resilient API-centric solutions. Starting with the evolution of enterprise applications, you'll learn how API-based integration architectures drive digital transformation. You'll then learn about the important principles and practices that apply to cloud-based API architectures and advance to exploring the different architecture styles and their implementation in Azure. This book is written from a practitioner's point of view, so you'll discover ideas and practices that have worked successfully in various customer scenarios. By the end of this book, you'll be able to architect, design, deploy, and monetize your API solutions in the Azure cloud while implementing best practices and industry standards.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Section 1: API-Led Architecture in the Digital Economy
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Section 2: Build Reliable API-Centric Solutions
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Section 3: Deliver Business Value for a Modern Enterprise

Chapter 3: Architecture Principles and API Styles

Architecture principles are a set of general rules and guidelines that are meant to serve as the core tenets for the design, development, and maintenance of IT solutions within an enterprise. These principles are meant to govern the decision-making process throughout the life cycle stages of an application to accomplish the goals outlined by the organization.   

The purpose of this chapter is to review the key architecture principles that will apply to API-centric solutions, and how they translate into the product backlog.

The chapter also presents some of the industry-standard API architecture styles along with references to Azure cloud-based implementation techniques.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following main topics:

  • Architecture principles
  • Evolve architecture blueprints iteratively
  • Constructs of an API
  • Popular API architecture styles
  • Finding the right style for...