Patterns for API Design: Simplifying Integration with Loosely Coupled Message Exchanges (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Vernon))

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This practical guide provides expert advice and design guidance for architects, designers, and developers on designing well-performing, user-friendly, and reliable APIs that enable breakthrough innovation and digital transformation. The guide simplifies complex API conversations and their message contents, introducing guidelines and heuristics that can be applied to any domain, technology, or platform. It covers the entire API lifecycle, from launching projects and establishing goals to creating useful documentation, with 44 API design patterns that include pros and cons, conceptual solutions, and concrete examples. The book also offers a domain model, a running case study, and decision narratives with pattern selection options and criteria, along with walkthroughs of real-world projects in two different industries.

The guide covers the following topics: identifying and overcoming API design challenges with patterns, sizing endpoint types and operations adequately, designing request and response messages and their representations, refining message design for quality, planning to evolve APIs, documenting and communicating API contracts, and combining patterns to solve real-world problems and make the right tradeoffs.

The book has received high praise from experts in the field for its mix of theory and practice, its real-world experience, and its academic rigor.

–Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Frank Leymann, Managing Director, Institute of Architecture of Application Systems, University of Stuttgart

From the Publisher

• Murat Erder, Pierre Pureur, Eoin Woods
• Stefan Hofer, Henning Schwentner
• Vaughn Vernon, Tomasz Jaskula
• James Higginbotham
• Olaf Zimmermann, Mirko Stocker, Daniel Lübke, Uwe Zdun, Cesare Pautasso

The Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Vernon) offers a range of books to help you update your architecture practice for new software challenges, learn how teams can work together to capture insights, solve strategic problems between business decision-makers and technical team members, understand principles and processes for succeeding across the entire API design lifecycle, and use proven patterns for designing high-value, evolvable APIs for any domain, technology, or platform.

This book is the perfect guide for those looking to design sustainable, high-quality APIs for any technology or platform.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09RV4PMYF
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Addison-Wesley Professional; 1st edition (December 5, 2022)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 5, 2022
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 27992 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Up to 5 simultaneous devices, per publisher limits
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 544 pages