RESTful API Design (API-University Series) - Softcover

Biehl, Matthias

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1514735164 ISBN 13: 9781514735169

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

Looking for Best Practices for RESTful APIs?
This book is for you! Why? Because this book is packed with practical experience on what works best for RESTful API Design.

You want to design APIs like a Pro?
Use API description languages to both design APIs and develop APIs efficiently. The book introduces the two most common API description languages RAML, OpenAPI, and Swagger.

Your company cares about its customers?
Learn API product management with a customer-centric design and development approach for APIs. Learn how to manage APIs as a product and how to follow an API-first approach. Build APIs your customers love!

You want to manage the complete API lifecycle?
An API development methodology is proposed to guide you through the lifecycle: API inception, API design, API development, API publication, API evolution, and maintenance.

You want to build APIs right?
This book shows best practices for REST design, such as the correct use of resources, URIs, representations, content types, data formats, parameters, HTTP status codes, and HTTP methods.

Your APIs connect to legacy systems?
The book shows best practices for connecting APIs to existing backend systems.

Your APIs connect to a mesh of microservices?
The book shows the principles for designing APIs for scalable, autonomous microservices.

You expect lots of traffic on your API?
The book shows you how to achieve high performance, availability and maintainability.

You want to build APIs that last for decades?
We study API versioning, API evolution, backward- and forward-compatibility and show API design patterns for versioning.

The API-University Series is a modular series of books on API-related topics. Each book focuses on a particular API topic, so you can select the topics within APIs, which are relevant for you.

About this title

About the Author

Matthias is a techie at heart with a background in APIs, AI, security, and software engineering. At some point, he got a Ph.D.

Nowadays, he uses his technical background to help companies define their digital strategy, execute their transformation agendas, and bring innovations to the market.

He also loves sharing his knowledge in the classroom, at workshops, and in his books. Matthias is an instructor at the API-University.com, publishes a blog on APIs, is the author of several books on APIs, and regularly speaks at technology conferences.

From the Back Cover

Looking for best practices in RESTful API Design? This book is for you!This book is packed with best practices on technical aspects of RESTful API Design, including the correct use of resources, URIs, representations, content types, data formats, parameters, HTTP status codes and HTTP methods. It also includes best practices for evolution and versioning, security, performance and availability issues.

API description languages (RAML and Swagger) are introduced as a way to document your API design decisions.

An API development methodology is proposed to provide some guidance towards efficient API development.

The API-University Series is a modular series of books on API-related topics. Each book focuses on a particular API topic, so you can select the topics within APIs, which are relevant for you.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1514735164
• ISBN 13: 9781514735169
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 294