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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 10

Real-World Pattern Stories

This chapter investigates API design and evolution in real-world business domains and application genres. We present two existing API-centric systems with their contexts, requirements, and design challenges as larger, domain-specific examples of pattern use. Both system have been running in production for a long time.

We return to the questions, options, and criteria for pattern selection from Chapter 3, “API Decision Narratives.” To do so, the chapter applies the patterns from Chapters 4 to 9 in combination, focusing on

  • When to apply which pattern, and why.

  • When to prefer which alternatives, and why.

The first pattern story, “Large-Scale Business Process Integration in the Swiss Mortgage Business,” is ...

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ISBN: 9780137670093