Chapter 5: RESTful APIs – the New Web

For most enterprises, using industry-accepted implementation standards is critical for ensuring a consistent experience across the catalog of APIs that are deployed. Adhering to one common standard simplifies the development and deployment processes, thereby ensuring reliability and maintainability. While there may be an initial learning curve for the team, but these investments will yield better results with the broad spectrum of experience within the development teams.     

The purpose of this chapter is to look at the REST standard, which builds upon the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) standard. The REST API style is the most popular standard and is commonly used in all modern applications. REST is becoming a new web standard and is being adopted as an OpenAPI Standard by most organizations, including cloud platform service providers. The cloud services natively support REST API endpoints that can...