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Thurupathan VijayakumarPractical API Architecture and Development with Azure and AWShttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3555-3_3

3. API Development

Thurupathan Vijayakumar1 
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Colombo, Sri Lanka
 

A modern-day developer has access to myriad of tools and frameworks to create a RESTful web service. Spinning up a quick service with CRUD endpoints for database models is easy, but this kind of development does not yield a fully managed API. The key difference is that not all web services are APIs. An API implementation should be strategized beyond just CRUD endpoints; it should facilitate business process and data flow, follow semantics of request URIs and HTTP verbs, have proper developer experience and documentation, implement ...

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