The Design of Web APIs - Brossura

Lauret, Arnaud

 
9781617295102: The Design of Web APIs
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ISBN 10: 1617295108 ISBN 13: 9781617295102
Casa editrice: Manning Pubns Co, 2019

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Summary

The Design of Web APIs is a practical, example-packed guide to crafting extraordinary web APIs. Author Arnaud Lauret demonstrates fantastic design principles and techniques you can apply to both public and private web APIs.

Foreword by Kin Lane, The API Evangelist.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the Technology

An API frees developers to integrate with an application without knowing its code-level details. Whether you're using established standards like REST and OpenAPI or more recent approaches like GraphQL or gRPC, mastering API design is a superskill. It will make your web-facing services easier to consume and your clients&;internal and external&;happier.

About the Book

Drawing on author Arnaud Lauret's many years of API design experience, this book teaches you how to gather requirements, how to balance business and technical goals, and how to adopt a consumer-first mindset. It teaches effective practices using numerous interesting examples.

What's inside

  • Characteristics of a well-designed API
  • User-oriented and real-world APIs
  • Secure APIs by design
  • Evolving, documenting, and reviewing API designs

About the Reader

Written for developers with minimal experience building and consuming APIs.

About the Author

A software architect with extensive experience in the banking industry, Arnaud Lauret has spent 10 years using, designing, and building APIs. He blogs under the name of API Handyman and has created the API Stylebook website.

Table of Contents

    PART 1 - Fundamentals of API design

  1. What is API design?
  2. Designing an API for its users
  3. Designing a programming interface
  4. Describing an API with an API description format

    5. PART 2 - Usable API design

  5. Designing a straightforward API
  6. Designing a predictable API
  7. Designing a concise and well-organized API

    8. PART 3 - Contextual API design

  8. Designing a secure API
  9. Evolving an API design
  10. Designing a network?efficient API
  11. Designing an API in context
  12. Documenting an API
  13. Growing APIs

Le informazioni nella sezione "Riassunto" possono far riferimento a edizioni diverse di questo titolo.

Informazioni sugli autori

Arnaud Lauret is a software architect with 15 years of experience in the banking industry. He has spent a decade using, designing, and building APIs. He's known on the web as the API Handyman (http://apihandyman.io) and is the creator of the API Stylebook (http://apistylebook.com), a collection of resources for API designers.



Arnaud Lauret is a software architect with 15 years of experience in the banking industry. He has spent a decade using, designing, and building APIs. He's known on the web as the API Handyman (http://apihandyman.io) and is the creator of the API Stylebook (http://apistylebook.com), a collection of resources for API designers.

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Editore
Manning Pubns Co
Data di pubblicazione
2019
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1617295108
ISBN 13 
9781617295102
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
364
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
Simon and Schuster Netherlands BV
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