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Hands-On RESTful API Design Patterns and Best Practices

By : Anupama Murali, Harihara Subramanian J, Pethuru Raj

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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.

Preface

Who this book is for

What this book covers

To get the most out of this book

Free Chapter

Introduction to the Basics of RESTful Architecture

Introduction to the Basics of RESTful Architecture

Technical requirements

Evolution of web technologies

Learning about Web 3.0

Design Strategy, Guidelines, and Best Practices

Design Strategy, Guidelines, and Best Practices

Technical requirements

Learning about REST API and its importance

Goals of RESTful API design

API designer roles and responsibilities

API design best practices

API design principles

RESTful API design rules

Further reading

Essential RESTful API Patterns

Essential RESTful API Patterns

Technical requirements

Beginning with the installations

Beginning with RESTful API patterns – part I

Advanced RESTful API Patterns

Advanced RESTful API Patterns

Technical requirements

RESTful API advanced patterns

Further reading

Microservice API Gateways

Microservice API Gateways

Technical requirements

About microservice architecture

The prominent infrastructure modules in microservice-centric applications

About API gateway solutions

API gateways for microservice-centric applications

The issues with microservice API gateways

Security features of API gateways

Prominent API gateway solutions

Service mesh versus API gateway

RESTful Services API Testing and Security

RESTful Services API Testing and Security

An overview of software testing

RESTful APIs and testing

Further reading

RESTful Service Composition for Smart Applications

RESTful Service Composition for Smart Applications

Technical requirements

The Representational State Transfer service paradigm

Service orchestration and choreography

Data management

RESTful API Design Tips

RESTful API Design Tips

Technical requirements

Beginning with APIs

Learning about application programming interfaces

APIs have become indispensable

Demystifying the RESTful services paradigm

Characterizing the REST architecture style

Further reading

A More In-depth View of the RESTful Services Paradigm

A More In-depth View of the RESTful Services Paradigm

Technical requirements

Tending toward the software-defined and software-driven world

The REST paradigm for application modernization and integration

SOAP versus REST

Best practices for REST-based microservices

Further reading

Frameworks, Standard Languages, and Toolkits

Frameworks, Standard Languages, and Toolkits

Technical requirements

Core features of a framework

Beginning about Light 4j

Spark Framework

Understanding Go framework for the RESTful API

Python RESTful API frameworks

Frameworks – a table of reference

Further reading

Legacy Modernization to Microservices-Centric Apps

Legacy Modernization to Microservices-Centric Apps

Technical requirements

A preview of containers and microservices

Approaching legacy application modernization

Refactoring and rewriting

Legacy modernization through microservices

Modernizing and migrating legacy applications – the role of cloud environments

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