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Building RESTful Web Services with PHP 7

You're reading from Building RESTful Web Services with PHP 7 Lumen, Composer, API testing, Microservices, and more

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787127746

Length 244 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PHP

Tools

Composer

Concepts

Microservices

Author (1):

Waheed ud din

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Table of Contents (10) Chapters

Preface

1. RESTful Web Services, Introduction and Motivation FREE CHAPTER

2. PHP7, To Code It Better

3. Creating RESTful Endpoints

4. Reviewing Design Flaws and Security Threats

5. Load and Resolve with Composer, an Evolutionary

6. Illuminating RESTful Web Services with Lumen

7. Improving RESTful Web Services

8. API Testing – Guards on the Gates

9. Microservices

How it is different from SOA

SOA stands for Service Oriented Architecture. By name it seems that this architecture depends on services just like micro-services. Service Orientation is a design paradigm in computer in the form of services. Its principles stress the separation of concerns (the same as SRP). Until now, it seems similar to microservices. Before understanding difference, we need to know that what is SOA. Although there is no one clear official definition of SOA. So let's take this basic definition from wikipedia:

A service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a style of software design where services are provided to the other components by application components, through a communication protocol over a network. The basic principles of service-oriented architecture are independent of vendors, products and technologies.

If you look at this definition then you will find that SOA is very similar to micro-services but its definition is not that concise and clear. One reason can be that SOA...

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Authors (1)

Waheed ud din

Waheed ud din

Haafiz Waheed-ud-din Ahmad has been working in the IT industry since 2008. He has mostly worked in web application development and mostly used PHP at the server side. Although most of his experience is in PHP, he is a technology agnostic person and also likes to learn and adapt to new technologies. He also acts as an adviser for startups and new developers. He has worked on Python and JavaScript as well. He likes to experiment with new technologies, and he has also explored Golang, Scala, and Neo4J. He also has a keen interest in data science and big data domain and has worked on D3.js for data visualization. He is not just a technology enthusiast but also likes to solve day-to-day problems by the usage of technology. You can follow him on twitter at @Haafiz786.

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