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Designing Software Architectures: A Practical Approach, 2nd Edition
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Designing Software Architectures: A Practical Approach, 2nd Edition

by Humberto Cervantes, Rick Kazman
June 2024
Intermediate to advanced
458 pages
12h 36m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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API-centric Design

The concept of agility in software development started to become popular with the publication of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development in 2001. Today, a large number of companies have adopted agile practices and techniques, particularly inside software development teams. Currently many companies are going through an “agile transformation”, which involves supporting agile practices not only at the software development team level, but across the whole organization. In this chapter, we discuss concepts of agility at business scale and how API-centric design is a key enabler to achieve them.

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Having read this chapter you should not expect to become an expert on any given API technology. Instead, ...

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