Chapter 11
Conclusion
Let us recapitulate the book content and reflect on the patterns for API design and evolution as we presented them across its three parts. This chapter also points to related research and contains our—somewhat speculative and risky—take on the future of APIs and related architectural knowledge.
Distributed systems are the norm today. In such systems, a number of services work together and communicate through remote APIs. When being assembled into distributed applications, APIs and their implementations must satisfy rather diverse integration requirements—different APIs may use different communication protocols and message exchange formats, their implementation components may reside in different security zones and/or run ...
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