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Principles of Web API Design: Delivering Value with APIs and Microservices
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Principles of Web API Design: Delivering Value with APIs and Microservices

by James Higginbotham
December 2021
Beginner to intermediate
368 pages
9h 5m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Foreword

According to a recent IDC report on APIs and API management, 75 percent of those surveyed were focused on digital transformation through the design and implementation of APIs and more than one half expected call volume and response time to grow dramatically. And most organizations admitted they faced challenges in meeting expectations for both internally and externally facing APIs. At the heart of all of this is the need for consistent, reliable, and scalable API design programs to help lead and transform existing organizations. As James Higginbotham puts it in this book: “The biggest challenge for today’s API programs continues to be successfully designing APIs that can be understood and integrated by developers in a consistent and ...

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ISBN: 9780137355754