Creating Maintainable APIs: A Practical, Case-Study Approach - Softcover

Varga, Ervin

 
9781484221952: Creating Maintainable APIs: A Practical, Case-Study Approach
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1484221958 ISBN 13: 9781484221952
Publisher: Apress, 2016

Synopsis

1. Aims to be unique enough contemporary and practical book on this subject to market. 
2. Mostly ebooks databases revenue using key relevant memes:  OOP, REST, JSON
3. Author Ervin Varga, PhD is IEEE software/computer programmer/developer.

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About the Author

Ervin Varga is in the software industry as a professional software engineer since 1994. He is an IEEE Software Engineering Certified Instructor, and an assistant professor at the University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Novi Sad, Serbia. As an owner of the software consulting company Expro I.T. Consulting, he is always in touch with production software. Consequently, he does posses production level expertise with the content of this book.  Lastly, Ervin has a M.Sc. from computer science, and a Ph.D. from electrical engineering (my thesis was an application of software engineering/computer science in the domain of electrical power systems).

From the Back Cover

This book explains the importance of having straightforward and maintainable APIs in order for services to be usable and maintainable. Although, the focus is on services, this book also emphasizes how the core principles apply even to bare classes. 

The overall context of this book is to classify the topics into 4 main areas: classes and interfaces, HTTP REST APIs, messaging APIs, and message payloads (XML, JSON and JSON API as well as Apache Avro).

Here is what you'll learn:
  • What are Object-Oriented design constructs and their APIs
  • How to create and manage the HTTP REST APIs
  • How to create and manage maintainable messaging APIs, including the use of Apache Kafka ad a principle messaging hub
  • How to handle message payloads via JSON mostly
  • And more

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Publisher
Apress
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1484221958
ISBN 13 
9781484221952
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
312