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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)

Modernizing and migrating legacy applications – the role of cloud environments

The technology space is continuously evolving, and is being strengthened with the adoption of newer technologies and tools. For example, the cloud paradigm has redefined the IT domain completely. Cloud technologies have made it possible to have highly optimized and organized IT to host any kind of business application. Hitherto unknown IT services are being formulated and delivered, and newer business models are emerging to cater to different sections and segments of the market, which is extremely knowledge-driven these days.

In the recent past, we've heard about containers and microservices more often. They are showing a lot of promise in bringing advancements in software engineering. The cloud journey is also progressing speedily. This progress means old applications need to be refurbished...