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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

The microservices architecture is the prime architectural pattern and style for producing multifaceted and enterprise-scale applications to be elegantly hosted and run on cloud environments (local and remote). Microservices are lightweight, simple to build and deploy, self-defined, fine-grained, and network accessible. They also follow the single functionality principle.

Nowadays, everything that communicates over HTTP and uses JSON- or XML-formatted messages or the HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT, or DELETE) gets called a RESTful API. RESTful APIs are easy to design and build. The seamless and spontaneous combination of microservices and RESTful APIs opens up fresh possibilities and opportunities. Hence, designing high-quality RESTful APIs acquires special significance in our increasingly connected and services-oriented world. This chapter provided the relevant patterns...