Chapter 7
REST-Based API Design
The REST interface is designed to be efficient for large-grain hypermedia data transfer, optimizing for the common case of the Web, but resulting in an interface that is not optimal for other forms of architectural interaction.
— Roy Thomas Fielding
As teams move from the modeling to the design phase, they are faced with a variety of decisions. Some of these will resolve easily, while others will take time and deliberation. Just know that it is difficult to get an API design right the first time. Therefore, teams are encouraged to spend time designing and prototyping their APIs to gain feedback from early adopters before coding begins.
This chapter presents an overview of REST, along with a step-by-step process ...
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