Harihara Subramanian - Hands-On RESTful API Design Patterns and Best Practices: Design, develop, and deploy highly adaptable, scalable, and secure RESTful web APIs

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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.

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.

Kenneth Geisshirt is a software developer based in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is a chemist by education, and a geek by nature. Working for a small database vendor, he implements SDKs for various programming languages (including Java, JavaScript, and so on) for a variety of platforms (including Linux, Android, and macOS). He is a strong believer in open source software, and endeavors to contribute where and when he can. He has authored books on PAM, Git, Linux, and JavaScript, and he writes technical feature articles for computer magazines.

Harshad Kavathiya is a backend software developer with extensive industrial experience. He has worked for companies including Altair Engineering, Honeywell, CoWrks, and many more reputed multinational corporations. He is currently working for Accion Labs as a senior software engineer. Harshad holds an M.Tech in computer science from Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal. His expertise lies in Python, data structures and algorithms, and MSA. He is passionate about real-time, scalable application development.

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This book is intended to empower you with knowledge of API design principles and best practices, such that you will be ready to design highly scalable, reusable, adaptable, and secured RESTful APIs. This book also introduces some common and some emerging patterns in the most indispensable domain of RESTful APIs.

RESTful patterns impact various layers of web services that span across multiple functions, such as CRUD operations, databases, presentation layers, applications, and infrastructure layers. Other prominent and dominant patterns in the RESTful domain include communication, integration, orchestration, security, management, software deployment, and delivery. This book will help you become familiar with the most significant patterns, such as client/server discovery, API gateways, API compositions, circuit breakers, enterprise security, content negotiation, endpoint redirection, idempotent capability, API faades, and many more essential patterns.