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Modern API Development with Spring and Spring Boot

By : Sourabh Sharma
Book Image

Modern API Development with Spring and Spring Boot

By: Sourabh Sharma

Overview of this book

The philosophy of API development has evolved over the years to serve the modern needs of enterprise architecture, and developers need to know how to adapt to these modern API design principles. Apps are now developed with APIs that enable ease of integration for the cloud environment and distributed systems. With this Spring book, you'll discover various kinds of production-ready API implementation using REST APIs and explore async using the reactive paradigm, gRPC, and GraphQL. You'll learn how to design evolving REST-based APIs supported by HATEOAS and ETAGs and develop reactive, async, non-blocking APIs. After that, you'll see how to secure REST APIs using Spring Security and find out how the APIs that you develop are consumed by the app's UI. The book then takes you through the process of testing, deploying, logging, and monitoring your APIs. You'll also explore API development using gRPC and GraphQL and design modern scalable architecture with microservices. The book helps you gain practical knowledge of modern API implementation using a sample e-commerce app. By the end of this Spring book, you'll be able to develop, test, and deploy highly scalable, maintainable, and developer-friendly APIs to help your customers to transform their business.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Section 1: RESTful Web Services
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Section 2: Security, UI, Testing, and Deployment
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Section 3: gRPC, Logging, and Monitoring
16
Section 4: GraphQL

Building a Docker image

At this point, you know the benefit of containerization and why it is becoming popular: you create an application, product, or service, bundle it using containerization, and give it to the QA team, customer, or DevOps team to run it without any issues.

In this section, you'll learn how to use Docker as a containerization platform. Let's learn about it before creating a Docker image of a sample ecommerce app.

Exploring Docker

Docker is a leading container platform and an open source project. Docker was launched in 2013. 10,000 developers tried it after its interactive tutorial was launched in August 2013. Docker was downloaded 2.75 million times by the time of its 1.0 release in June 2013. Many large corporations have signed a partnership agreement with Docker Inc., including Microsoft, Red Hat, HP, and OpenStack, as well as service providers such as AWS, IBM, and Google.

Docker makes use of Linux kernel features to ensure resource isolation...