Hands-On RESTful API Design Patterns and Best Practices
by Harihara Subramanian J, Anupama Murali, Pethuru Raj
Summary
The microservices architecture is the prime architectural pattern and style for producing multifaceted and enterprise-scale applications to be elegantly hosted and run on cloud environments (local and remote). Microservices are lightweight, simple to build and deploy, self-defined, fine-grained, and network accessible. They also follow the single functionality principle.
Nowadays, everything that communicates over HTTP and uses JSON- or XML-formatted messages or the HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT, or DELETE) gets called a RESTful API. RESTful APIs are easy to design and build. The seamless and spontaneous combination of microservices and RESTful APIs opens up fresh possibilities and opportunities. Hence, designing high-quality RESTful ...
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