The Guide to Creating Effective Web APIs

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Overview

The Design of Web APIs provides practical tips and examples for creating exceptional web APIs. Arnaud Lauret shares principles of API design that you can use for both public and private web APIs.

About the Technology

API technology allows developers to connect to an application without knowledge of its code-level components. With well-designed, secure APIs, web services become easier and more efficient to consume for internal and external clients. The book covers established standards like REST and OpenAPI, GraphQL, and gRPC, along with important design practices to help you build robust APIs and achieve optimal results.

The purchase of the print version of this book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the Book

API expert Arnaud Lauret has over a decade of experience designing and building APIs in the banking industry. This book covers how to bring business and technical goals together, effective practices for gathering requirements and maintaining consumer-focused development, and important factors to consider for reviewing a successful API design.

What’s Inside

This book offers instruction on:

• API design components
• Creating consumer-focused APIs
• Designing secure APIs
• API design documentation eveolving and reviewing

About the Reader

This book is written for software developers with minimal experience in building and consuming APIs.

About the Author

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

Publisher: Manning; First edition (November 6, 2019)

Language: English

Paperback: 400 pages

ISBN-10: 1617295108

ISBN-13: 978-1617295102

Item Weight: 1.5 pounds

Dimensions: 7.38 x 0.7 x 9.25 inches