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Hands-On RESTful API Design Patterns and Best Practices

You're reading from Hands-On RESTful API Design Patterns and Best Practices Design, develop, and deploy highly adaptable, scalable, and secure RESTful web APIs

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788992664

Length 378 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Concepts

Design Patterns

Authors (3):

Anupama Murali

Pethuru Raj

Harihara Subramanian J

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to the Basics of RESTful Architecture

2. Design Strategy, Guidelines, and Best Practices FREE CHAPTER

3. Essential RESTful API Patterns

4. Advanced RESTful API Patterns

5. Microservice API Gateways

6. RESTful Services API Testing and Security

7. RESTful Service Composition for Smart Applications

8. RESTful API Design Tips

9. A More In-depth View of the RESTful Services Paradigm

10. Frameworks, Standard Languages, and Toolkits

11. Legacy Modernization to Microservices-Centric Apps

12. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Evolution of web technologies

Generally, the aim of this book is to provide more elaborate RESTful patterns; however, this section intends to give you a quick introduction to web services and their evolution since the early 1990s, giving you exciting facts about Web 1.0 through to Web 3.0, and then moving on to details about service-oriented architecture (SOA) and resource-oriented architecture (ROA).

As you are aware, today's web is a universe in itself, with a massive amount of interlinked web-based apps, images, videos, photos, and various interactive content. Which web technologies have made this possible, where did it start, how has it evolved over time, and how does it enable web app developers to develop amazing and interactive web experiences?

The following diagram provides a brief overview of the WWW and its evolution over time. Please note that each web version has its enabling technologies mentioned in the corresponding box:

Let's discuss Web 3.0 more and focus on web services and their evolution as part of the third generation.

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Authors (3)

J

J

Harihara Subramanian works for the SABRE Corporation as a senior principal software architect. Hari has been working with software development and various software architecture concepts since 1999. He is an energetic and highly focused technology leader with a proven track record in software development, software architecture principles, and implementations. He has been an active contributor to various online and offline forums in different technologies, and focuses his time on technology consulting, software development, microservices architecture (MSA), Service-oriented architecture (SOA), and more.

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Murali

Murali

Anupama has recently joined Flipkart as a senior manager. Prior to this, she worked as an architect in the IBM Business Analytics Business Unit (Smarter Cities product lines), in the IBM Software labs. She has worked extensively on all IBM business analytics product lines, which include products and technologies on predictive and prescriptive analytics. Anupama is EMC Certified as a Cloud Infrastructure and Services management professional, Data Center Architect, Storage and Management Professional, Networking Design and Management Professional, and EMC Technology Foundation Professional.

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Pethuru Raj

Pethuru Raj

Pethuru Raj (PhD) works as the chief architect at the Site Reliability Engineering Center of Excellence, Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd. (RJIL), Bengaluru. Previously, he worked as a cloud infrastructure architect at the IBM Global Cloud Center of Excellence, IBM India, Bengaluru. He also had an extended stint as a TOGAF-certified enterprise architecture consultant in Wipro Consulting's services division and as a lead architect in the corporate research division of Robert Bosch, Bengaluru. He has more than 17 years of IT industry experience and 8 years' research experience.

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