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Practical Site Reliability Engineering

You're reading from   Practical Site Reliability Engineering Automate the process of designing, developing, and delivering highly reliable apps and services with SRE

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788839563
Length 390 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Pethuru Raj Chelliah Pethuru Raj Chelliah
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Shailender Singh Shailender Singh
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Shreyash Naithani Shreyash Naithani
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Preface 1. Demystifying the Site Reliability Engineering Paradigm FREE CHAPTER 2. Microservices Architecture and Containers 3. Microservice Resiliency Patterns 4. DevOps as a Service 5. Container Cluster and Orchestration Platforms 6. Architectural and Design Patterns 7. Reliability Implementation Techniques 8. Realizing Reliable Systems - the Best Practices 9. Service Resiliency 10. Containers, Kubernetes, and Istio Monitoring 11. Post-Production Activities for Ensuring and Enhancing IT Reliability 12. Service Meshes and Container Orchestration Platforms 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Representational State Transfer (REST)

This is used for the purpose of data communication across web APIs. The REST API works pretty much in the same way as a website: you make a call from the client to the server and get a HTTP response back. REST uses HTTP methods to interact with the client and the server. REST allows a variety of data formats such as JSON or XML. It is generally faster and uses less bandwidth. It is also easy to integrate with other applications.

Commonly used HTTP methods in REST APIs include the following:

  • GET: This is used for retrieving a data through APIs. It is a read-only method. It is safe to use duplicate GET methods.
  • PUT: This is used to change or update a data using APIs. It is a write method, and we can use duplicate PUT methods.
  • POST: This is used to create or insert data. It is a write method.
  • DELETE: This is used to remove a particular piece...
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