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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)

The Representational State Transfer service paradigm

RESTful services assist in establishing a beneficial relationship between computers and other I/O devices with internet-based systems, applications, and data sources. The RESTful API uses the pervasive HTTP methods to perform the most common actions (GET, PUT, POST, and DELETE). Representation State Transfer (REST) is a promising and potential architectural style for designing loosely-coupled applications over HTTP. RESTful services are the simplest and most sought-after services that blend well to result in web, mobile, cloud, and IoT applications.

API design best practices

When creating APIs, the following non-functional requirements (NFRs) and the quality of service...