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Modern API Development with Spring and Spring Boot

By : Sourabh Sharma
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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)
1
Section 1: RESTful Web Services
7
Section 2: Security, UI, Testing, and Deployment
12
Section 3: gRPC, Logging, and Monitoring
16
Section 4: GraphQL

Introduction and gRPC architecture

gRPC is an open source framework for general-purpose RPC across a network. gRPC supports full-duplex streaming and is also mostly aligned with HTTP/2 semantics. It supports different media formats, such as Protobuf (default), JSON, XML, and Thrift. The use of Protocol Buffer (Protobuf) aces the others because of higher performance.

gRPC brings the best of REST (Representational State Transfer) and RPC to the table and is well suited for distributed network communication through APIs. It offers some prolific features, as follows:

  • It is designed for a highly scalable distributed system and offers low latency.
  • It offers load balancing and failover.
  • It can be integrated easily at the application layer for interaction with flow control because of its layered design.
  • It supports cascade call cancellation.
  • It offers wide communication—mobile app to server, web app to server, and any gRPC client app to the gRPC server app...