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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)

Summary

Learning the patterns with a few code examples always provides us with great insights. In this chapter, we discussed versioning our APIs, securing APIs with authorization, and enabling the service clients with uniform contract, entity endpoint, and endpoint redirection implementations. We also learned about Idempotent and its importance, which powers APIs with bulk operations. The most important part of this chapter is the circuit-breaker implementation with Hysterix, where we envisioned and implemented the resiliency patterns of API designs.

Having covered various advanced patterns, we concluded the chapter with the BFF pattern, and we learned how it reduces churns within the cross-implementation team by helping them to develop an exclusive interface for target environments.

In the next chapter, we'll cover RESTful API gateways, which should be an equally exciting...