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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

Microservices enabled with RESTful APIs are the hot commodity these days. Microservices have emerged as the optimal unit of application development and deployment, not only for building and running enterprise-grade and production-ready applications, but also for modernizing currently-running applications. That is, legacy applications are being dismantled as a collection of microservices. Because of their unique features, microservices are becoming established as the most appropriate unit for migrating applications to cloud environments; that is, microservices contribute immensely to crafting and running cloud-enabled applications. Fresh applications are being directly developed in cloud environments, called cloud-native applications. This chapter discussed legacy modernization, why it's becoming essential, and how the MSA pattern assists in creating modern applications...