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PHP Microservices

You're reading from   PHP Microservices Transit from monolithic architectures to highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant microservices

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787125377
Length 392 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Carlos Pérez Sánchez Carlos Pérez Sánchez
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Pablo Solar Vilariño Pablo Solar Vilariño
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Preface 1. What are Microservices? FREE CHAPTER 2. Development Environment 3. Application Design 4. Testing and Quality Control 5. Microservices Development 6. Monitoring 7. Security 8. Deployment 9. From Monolithic to Microservices 10. Strategies for Scalability 11. Best Practices and Conventions 12. Cloud and DevOps

RESTful conventions

Representational State Transfer is the name of the method used to communicate with the APIs. As the name suggests, it is stateless; in other words, the services do not keep the data transferred, so if you call a microservice sending data (for example, a username and a password), the microservice will not remember the data next time you call it. The state is kept by the client, so the client needs to send the state every time the microservice is called.

A good example of this is when a user is logged in and the user is able to call a specific method, so it is necessary to send the user credentials (username and password or token) every time.

The concept of a Rest API is not a service anymore; instead of that, it is like a resource container available to be communicated by identifiers (URIs).

In the following lines, we will define some interesting conventions about APIs. It is important to know these kinds of tips because you should do things as you would like to find...

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