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Patterns for API Design: Simplifying Integration with Loosely Coupled Message Exchanges
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Patterns for API Design: Simplifying Integration with Loosely Coupled Message Exchanges

by Olaf Zimmermann, Mirko Stocker, Daniel Lubke, Uwe Zdun, Cesare Pautasso
November 2022
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
544 pages
15h 47m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 4

Pattern Language Introduction

In Part 1, we learned that remote APIs have become an important feature of modern distributed software systems. APIs provide integration interfaces exposing remote system functionality to end-user applications such as mobile clients, Web applications, and third-party systems. Not only end-user applications consume and rely on APIs—distributed backend systems and microservices within those systems require APIs to be able to work with each other as well.

Lakeside Mutual, a fictitious insurance company, and its microservices-based applications provided us with an example case. We saw that API design and evolution involve many recurring design issues to resolve conflicting requirements and find appropriate ...

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ISBN: 9780137670093