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Modern API Development with Spring and Spring Boot

By : Sourabh Sharma
Book Image

Modern API Development with Spring and Spring Boot

By: Sourabh Sharma

Overview of this book

The philosophy of API development has evolved over the years to serve the modern needs of enterprise architecture, and developers need to know how to adapt to these modern API design principles. Apps are now developed with APIs that enable ease of integration for the cloud environment and distributed systems. With this Spring book, you'll discover various kinds of production-ready API implementation using REST APIs and explore async using the reactive paradigm, gRPC, and GraphQL. You'll learn how to design evolving REST-based APIs supported by HATEOAS and ETAGs and develop reactive, async, non-blocking APIs. After that, you'll see how to secure REST APIs using Spring Security and find out how the APIs that you develop are consumed by the app's UI. The book then takes you through the process of testing, deploying, logging, and monitoring your APIs. You'll also explore API development using gRPC and GraphQL and design modern scalable architecture with microservices. The book helps you gain practical knowledge of modern API implementation using a sample e-commerce app. By the end of this Spring book, you'll be able to develop, test, and deploy highly scalable, maintainable, and developer-friendly APIs to help your customers to transform their business.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Section 1: RESTful Web Services
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Section 2: Security, UI, Testing, and Deployment
12
Section 3: gRPC, Logging, and Monitoring
16
Section 4: GraphQL

Exploring the fundamentals of containerization

One problem that's encountered frequently by teams while developing large, complex systems is that the code that works on one machine doesn't work on another. One developer might say it works on their machine, but Quality Assurance (QA) claims that it is failing on "their machine" with animated face. The main reason behind these kinds of scenarios is a mismatch of dependencies (such as different versions of Java, a certain web server, or OS), configurations, or files.

Also, setting up a new environment for deploying new products sometimes takes a day or more. This is unacceptable in today's environment and slows down your development turnaround. These kinds of issues can be solved by containerizing the application.

In containerization, an application is bundled, configured, and wrapped with all the required dependencies and files. This bundle can then be run on any machine that support the containerization...