Hands-On RESTful API Design Patterns and Best Practices

The advantages of REST

Typically, there could be many interactions between requesting and serving services to fulfill a business process and, hence, the communication among different and distributed microservices has to happen fast with less overhead. REST is mandated to have less latency networks for speedier service requests and fulfillment, which makes REST APIs a good fit. REST APIs not only support XML and JSON, but also support more optimized binary representation formats, such as a protocol buffer or Avro. Further on, it can upgrade to HTTP/2.0. Billions of people across the globe use the web for a variety of purposes. There are millions of developers creating a variety of web applications. Thus, a competent web architecture is needed ...