JSON at Work: Practical Data Integration for the Web

JSON is becoming the backbone for meaningful data interchange over the internet. This format is now supported by an entire ecosystem of standards, tools, and technologies for building truly elegant, useful, and efficient applications. With this hands-on guide, author and architect Tom Marrs shows you how to build enterprise-class applications and services by leveraging JSON tooling and message/document design.

JSON at Work provides application architects and developers with guidelines, best practices, and use cases, along with lots of real-world examples and code samples. You’ll start with a comprehensive JSON overview, explore the JSON ecosystem, and then dive into JSON’s use in the enterprise.

• Get acquainted with JSON basics and learn how to model JSON data
• Learn how to use JSON with Node.js, Ruby on Rails, and Java
• Structure JSON documents with JSON Schema to design and test APIs
• Search the contents of JSON documents with JSON Search tools
• Convert JSON documents to other data formats with JSON Transform tools
• Compare JSON-based hypermedia formats, including HAL and jsonapi
• Leverage MongoDB to store and access JSON documents
• Use Apache Kafka to exchange JSON-based messages between services

Tom Marrs is passionate about demonstrating the business value of technology. As an Enterprise Architect at TEKsystems Global Services, he leverages the enabling architectures and technologies that fuel the growing API Economy – REST, Microservices, and JSON. Tom has led enterprise-class API, Web, Mobile, Cloud, and SOA projects. An avid Agilist, Tom is a Certified Scrum Master and enjoys mentoring and coaching project teams.

In other JSON-related work, Tom wrote the Core JSON Refcard for DZone (the #1 downloaded Refcard in 2013). In a past life, Tom co-authored JBoss at Work for O’Reilly. Tom has also been a speaker at the OSCON, No Fluff Just Stuff (NFJS) and Great Indian Developer Summit (GIDS) conferences.