Proven Patterns for Designing Evolvable High-Quality APIs–For Any Domain, Technology, or Platform
APIs enable breakthrough innovation and digital transformation in organizations and ecosystems of all kinds. To create user-friendly, reliable and well-performing APIs, architects, designers, and developers need expert design guidance. This practical guide cuts through the complexity of API conversations and their message contents, introducing comprehensive guidelines and heuristics for designing APIs sustainably and specifying them clearly, for whatever technologies or platforms you use.
In Patterns for API Design: Simplifying Integration with Loosely Coupled Message Exchanges, five expert architects and developers cover the entire API lifecycle, from launching projects and establishing goals through defining requirements, elaborating designs, planning evolution, and creating useful documentation. They crystallize the collective knowledge of many practitioners into 44 API design patterns, consistently explained with context, pros and cons, conceptual solutions, and concrete examples. To make their pattern language accessible, they present a domain model, a running case study, decision narratives with pattern selection options and criteria, and walkthroughs of real-world projects applying the patterns in two different industries.
Identify and overcome API design challenges with patternsSize your endpoint types and operations adequatelyDesign request and response messages and their representationsRefine your message design for qualityPlan to evolve your APIsDocument and communicate your API contractsCombine patterns to solve real-world problems and make the right tradeoffs
“This book provides a healthy mix of theory and practice, containing numerous nuggets of deep advice but never losing the big picture . . . grounded in real-world experience and documented with academic rigor applied and practitioner community feedback incorporated. I am confident that [it] will serve the community well, today and tomorrow.”
–Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Frank Leymann, Managing Director, Institute of Architecture of Application Systems, University of Stuttgart
ASIN : B0DFX168WR
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Professional
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Publication date : December 5, 2022
Edition : 1st
Language : English
File size : 11.0 MB
Simultaneous device usage : Up to 5 simultaneous devices, per publisher limits
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Print length : 544 pages
Format : Print Replica
ISBN-13 : 978-0137670048
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Part of series : Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Vernon)
Reading age : 18 years and up
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