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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)
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

Learning microservice concepts

Microservices are self-contained lightweight processes that communicate over a network. Microservices provides narrowly focused APIs to their consumers. These APIs can be implemented using REST, gRPC, or events.

Microservices are not new—they have been around for many years. For example, Stubby, a general-purpose infrastructure based on Remote Procedure Call (RPC), was used in Google data centers in the early 2000s to connect several services with and across data centers.

Its recent rise is due to its popularity and visibility. Before microservices became popular, monolithic architectures were mainly being used for developing on-premises and cloud-based applications.

A monolithic architecture allows the development of different components, such as presentation, application logic, business logic, and Data Access Objects (DAOs), and then you either bundle them together in an Enterprise Archive (EAR) or a Web Archive (WAR) or store them in...