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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)

About microservice architecture

Legacy applications are inflexible, closed, monolithic, massive, and much more. Bringing forth business and technology modifications is beset with a number of issues and risks. Third-party service integration is a tough affair. Incorporating additional interfaces such as web, mobile, and cloud is another difficult thing for legacy systems. There are several access channels emerging these days, and our applications need to have the innate capability to work with multiple channels. In future, businesses will demand more with less from their IT teams and partners. In short, the development and operational complexities of legacy applications are prohibitively large. Microservice architecture (MSA) is all about achieving speed and safety at scale, and the MSA ecosystem is continuously growing to provide scores of competent technologies, tools, and frameworks...