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Modern API Development with Spring and Spring Boot

You're reading from   Modern API Development with Spring and Spring Boot Design highly scalable and maintainable APIs with REST, gRPC, GraphQL, and the reactive paradigm

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800562479
Length 582 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sourabh Sharma Sourabh Sharma
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: RESTful Web Services
2. Chapter 1: RESTful Web Service Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Spring Concepts and REST APIs 4. Chapter 3: API Specifications and Implementation 5. Chapter 4: Writing Business Logic for APIs 6. Chapter 5: Asynchronous API Design 7. Section 2: Security, UI, Testing, and Deployment
8. Chapter 6: Security (Authorization and Authentication) 9. Chapter 7: Designing a User Interface 10. Chapter 8: Testing APIs 11. Chapter 9: Deployment of Web Services 12. Section 3: gRPC, Logging, and Monitoring
13. Chapter 10: gRPC Fundamentals 14. Chapter 11: gRPC-based API Development and Testing 15. Chapter 12: Logging and Tracing 16. Section 4: GraphQL
17. Chapter 13: GraphQL Fundamentals 18. Chapter 14: GraphQL API Development and Testing 19. Assessments 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Introduction and gRPC architecture

gRPC is an open source framework for general-purpose RPC across a network. gRPC supports full-duplex streaming and is also mostly aligned with HTTP/2 semantics. It supports different media formats, such as Protobuf (default), JSON, XML, and Thrift. The use of Protocol Buffer (Protobuf) aces the others because of higher performance.

gRPC brings the best of REST (Representational State Transfer) and RPC to the table and is well suited for distributed network communication through APIs. It offers some prolific features, as follows:

  • It is designed for a highly scalable distributed system and offers low latency.
  • It offers load balancing and failover.
  • It can be integrated easily at the application layer for interaction with flow control because of its layered design.
  • It supports cascade call cancellation.
  • It offers wide communication—mobile app to server, web app to server, and any gRPC client app to the gRPC server app...
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