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Enterprise API Management

You're reading from Enterprise API Management Design and deliver valuable business APIs

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2019

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781787284432

Length 300 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

GraphQL

Concepts

Design

Author (1):

Luis Weir

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Table of Contents (9) Chapters

Preface

1. The Business Value of APIs FREE CHAPTER

2. The Evolution of API Platforms

3. Business-Led API Strategy

4. API-Led Architectures

5. API-Led Architecture Patterns

6. Modern API Architectural Styles

7. API Life Cycle

8. API Products' Target Operating Model

Modern API Architectural Styles

This chapter complements Chapter 5, API-Led Architecture Patterns, by discussing in more detail the different modern API architectural styles, such as Representational State Transfer (REST), Graph Query Language (GraphQL), and Google Remote Procedure Calls (gRPC), that were briefly mentioned in the patterns illustrated. This chapter accomplishes this by first delivering a point of view on the application interface protocols and standards that have led to modern APIs. Next, the chapter will elaborate on their unique characteristics, their pros and cons, and when to (or not to) use each of them.

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Authors (1)

Luis Weir

Luis Weir

Luis Augusto Weir is a Director of Software Development at Oracle and a former Chief Architect at Capgemini, Oracle Ace Director and Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador. An API management and microservices evangelist, Luis has over 17 years of experience implementing complex distributed systems around the world.Co-author of 3 other books as well as numerous articles and white papers, Luis has been a frequent speaker frequent speaker at known events such as CodeOne, Devoxx, Gartner AAD&I, Oracle OpenWorld, Java2Days and many user groups and meetups.Luis holds an MS in Corporate Networks and Systems Integration from the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (UPV) and a BS in Electronics Engineering from the Universidad Nueva Esparta.

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