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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)

Understanding Go framework for the RESTful API

Go is one of the friendlier programming languages for microservices and RESTful APIs. Go is a general-purpose, procedural programming language with advanced features and clean syntax. It influences the efficient management of dependencies using package-assembly and supports environment adopting patterns alike to dynamic languages.

An overview

There are many powerful frameworks that Gophers (Go lang programmers) can employ to reuse proven, extensible, production-grade external packages out of the box for their app's development. This section intends to cover some details and functions for two Go-language-based frameworks—Gin-gonic and Revel that you can use...