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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)

A More In-depth View of the RESTful Services Paradigm

With the grand arrival of a bevy of futuristic and flexible information technologies, automated tools, optimized infrastructures, integrated platforms, and multifaceted devices, the world is bound to experiment and experience hitherto unknown software applications and services toward empowering businesses and people. With the faster proliferation of slim and sleek, handy and trendy smartphones, we are destined to have a dazzling array of easy-to-use and eye-catching mobile applications and services. With wearables, portables, fixed devices, handhelds, and wireless gadgets joining in mainstream computing, the application scope, size, speed, and structure are bound to escalate appreciably. To fit applications into every segment of devices, software developers across the world are expected to bring forth customizable, composable...