Biharck Muniz Araujo - Hands-On RESTful Web Services with TypeScript 3: Design and develop scalable RESTful APIs for your applications

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REST has been around for many years, so why should someone write a book about it now? In our book, Building Evolutionary Architectures, we described the software development ecosystem as a dynamic equilibrium equilibrium because all the pieces fit together, but dynamic because any part (technology, technique, tool, framework, library, and so on) can change at any time. Given that architects and developers work in such a volatile environment, it is useful to revisit technologies that are still used on a continuous basis because we constantly figure out new ways to apply useful technologies.

REST certainly qualifies as a popular technology that continues to gain traction. Just like all other active software tools, the tools and approaches evolve over time, which makes this book a timely addition to the corpus of books relating to REST. The author does a terrific job of establishing the technology underpinning REST, but there are also chapters discussing how the use of this protocol has evolved over time, including numerous best practices regarding how real teams use REST and related tools to solve real problems.

This book is well organized, dividing its time between critical academic definitions (REST came from academia, after all) and practical advice on how to apply it. For example, , Principles of Designing RESTful APIs, provides an excellent overview of how teams use REST for different purposes, and not just how the bits wire together.

I think this book will become a valuable addition to developers' libraries. It serves as both an excellent introduction and overview, but also as a fantastic reference book for establishing best practices and other enduring advice. Congratulations to Biharck for writing a clear and compelling book on a complex subject and its related ecosystem.

Neal Ford

Director / Software Architect / Meme Wrangler at ThoughtWorks

Biharck Muniz Arajo is passionate about technology and academic research. He has been working as a software architect and lead programmer for the past 12 years. With over 16 years' experience, he has been working with technology in relation to large-scale problems associated with web projects that demanded high-security standards for information transmission in companies in a variety of sectors, including telecoms, health, and finance. His background is in computer science, and he has a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics. Currently, he is focused on performance and algorithm design.

Ruchitha Sahabandu is a software engineer, technical trainer, and mentor with more than 14 years' experience in designing and developing business applications, embedded systems based on JavaScript frameworks, JEE, Oracle, and C/C++ technologies. He has worked in many challenging projects run on Agile and TDD, SDLC methodologies in areas such as Automatic Fare Collection (AFC), Resource planning and scheduling (MRP), Supply Chain Management (SCM), and Production Floor Automation, for customers around the globe.

He graduated from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, with a degree in computer science in 2006. He lives in Perth, Australia, and is currently working full-time alongside Nathan Rozetals on the development of a next-generation automatic fare collection product.