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

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The Full-Lifecycle Guide to API Design Principles of Web API Design brings together principles and processes to help you succeed across the entire API design lifecycle. Drawing on extensive in-the-trenches experience, leading consultant James Higginbotham helps you align every stakeholder on specific outcomes, design APIs that deliver value, and scale the design process from small teams to the entire organization. Higginbotham helps you bring an "outside-in" perspective to API design to reflect the voices of customers and product teams, map requirements to specific and well-organized APIs, and choose the right API style for writing them. He walks through a real-world example from the ground up, offering guidance for anyone designing new APIs or extending existing APIs. Deliver great APIs by getting your design processes rightGain agreement on specific outcomes from design teams, customers, and other stakeholdersCraft job stories, conduct EventStorming, and model capabilitiesIdentify the right APIs, and organize operations into coherent API profilesChoose the best styles for each project: REST, gRPC, GraphQL, or event-based async APIsRefine designs based on feedback from documenters, testers, and customersDecompose APIs into microservicesMature your API program, implementing design and management processes that scaleThis guide is invaluable for anyone involved in planning or building APIs--architects, developers, team leaders, managers in single and multi-team environments, and any technical or business professional delivering "API-as-a-product" offerings. Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.

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James Higginbotham is a software developer and architect with over 25 years of experience in developing and deploying apps and APIs. He guides enterprises through their digital transformation journey, ensuring alignment between business and technology through product-based thinking to deliver a great customer experience. James engages with teams and organizations to help them align their business, product, and technology strategies into a more composable and modular enterprise platform. James also delivers workshops that help cross-functional teams to apply an API design-first approach using his ADDR process. His industry experience includes banking, commercial insurance, hospitality, travel, and the airline industry where he helped to get an airline off the ground--literally. You can learn more about his latest efforts at and on Twitter @launchany.

Table of Contents

Series Editor Foreword xxiForeword xxvPreface xxviiAcknowledgments xxxiAbout the Author xxxiii Part I: Introduction to Web API Design 1 Chapter 1: The Principles of API Design 3 The Elements of Web API Design 4 API Design Is Communication 6 Reviewing the Principles of Software Design 7 Resource-Based API Design 10 Resources Are Not Object or Domain Models 11 Resource-Based APIs Exchange Messages 12 The Principles of Web API Design 13 Summary 14 Chapter 2: Collaborative API Design 15 Why an API Design Process? 15 API Design Process Antipatterns 16 The API Design-First Approach 20 Remaining Agile with API Design-First 22 The Align-Define-Design-Refine Process 23 The Role of DDD in API Design 26 API Design Involves Everyone 26 Applying the Process Effectively 28 Summary 28 Part II: Aligning on API Outcomes 29 Chapter 3: Identify Digital Capabilities 31 Ensuring Stakeholder Alignment 32 What Are Digital Capabilities? 33 Focusing on the Jobs to Be Done 34 What Are Job Stories? 35 The Components of a Job Story 36 Writing Job Stories for APIs 37 Overcoming Job Story Challenges 38 Techniques for Capturing Job Stories 40 A Real-World API Design Project 41 Job Story Examples 42 Summary 42 Chapter 4: Capture Activities and Steps 45 Extending Job Stories into Activities and Steps 46 Using EventStorming for Collaborative Understanding 49 How EventStorming Works 50 The Benefits of EventStorming 58 Facilitating an EventStorming Session 60 Customizing the Process 64 Summary 65 Part III: Defining Candidate APIs 67 Chapter 5: Identifying API Boundaries 69 Avoiding API Boundary Antipatterns 70 Bounded Contexts, Subdomains, and APIs 72 Finding API Boundaries Using EventStorming 73 Finding API Boundaries through Activities 73 Naming and Scoping APIs 75 Summary 78 Chapter 6: API Modeling 79 What Is API Modeling? 80 The API Modeling Process 81 Validating the API Model with Sequence Diagrams 93 Evaluating API Priority and Reuse 95 Summary 96 Part IV: Designing APIs 99 Chapter 7: REST-Based API Design 101 What Is a REST-Based API? 102 REST API Design Process 112 Selecting a Representation Format 125 Common REST Design Patterns 132 Summary 136 Chapter 8: RPC and Query-Based API Design 137 What Is an RPC-Based API? 138 RPC API Design Process 142 What Is a Query-Based API? 146 Query-Based API Design Process 150 Summary 157 Chapter 9: Async APIs for Eventing and Streaming 159 The Problem with API Polling 160 Async APIs Create New Possibilities 161 A Review of Messaging Fundamentals 162 Async API Styles 171 Designing Async APIs 178 Documenting Async APIs 184 Summary 186 Part V: Refining the API Design 187 Chapter 10: From APIs to Microservices 189 What Are Microservices? 190 Microservices Reduce Coordination Costs 192 The Difference between APIs and Microservices 193 Weighing the Complexity of Microservices 193 Synchronous and Asynchronous Microservices 198 Microservice Architecture Styles 201 Right-Sizing Microservices 204 Decomposing APIs into Microservices 204 Considerations When Transitioning to Microservices 210 Summary 211 Chapter 11: Improving the Developer Experience 213 Creating a Mock API Implementation 214 Providing Helper Libraries and SDKs 219 Offering CLIs for APIs 221 Summary 224 Chapter 12: API Testing Strategies 225 Acceptance Testing 226 Automated Security Testing 226 Operational Monitoring 227 API Contract Testing 227 Selecting Tools to Accelerate Testing 229 The Challenges of API Testing 230 Make API Testing Essential 231 Summary 231 Chapter 13: Document the API Design 233 The Importance of API Documentation 234 API Description Formats 234 Extending Docs with Code Examples 248 From Reference Docs to a Developer Portal 251 Effective API Documentation 253 The Minimum Viable Portal 256 Tools and Frameworks for Developer Portals 259 Summary 260 Chapter 14: Designing for Change 261 The Impact of Change on Existing APIs 261 API Versioning Strategies 264 Deprecating APIs 268 Establishing an API Stability Contract 270 Summary 271 Chapter 15: Protecting APIs 273 The Potential for API Mischief 273 Essential API Protection Practices 274 Components of API Protection 276 API Gateway Topologies 279 Identity and Access Management 284 Considerations before Building an In-House API Gateway 289 Summary 291 Chapter 16: Continuing the API Design Journey 293 Establishing an API Style Guide 293 Conducting API Design Reviews 297 Developing a Culture of Reuse 300 The Journey Has Only Begun 301 Appendix: HTTP Primer 303 Index 319

Review

"I've had the good fortune to work alongside and learn from James over the past several years. His varied institutional knowledge, along with his depth of experience and eye for practical application, makes him unique among his peers. I am ecstatic that others now have the opportunity, in this book, to benefit from James's compelling, pragmatic vision for how to make better APIs. Principles of Web API Design surveys the gamut of available techniques and sets forth a prescriptive, easy-to-follow approach. Teams that apply the guidance in this book will create APIs that better resonate with customers, deliver more business value in less time, and require fewer breaking changes. I cannot recommend Principles of Web API Design enough." --Matthew Reinbold, Director of API Ecosystems, Postman "In modern software development, APIs end up being both the cause of and solution to many of the problems we face. James's process for dissecting, analyzing, and designing APIs from concepts to caching creates a repeatable approach for teams to solve more problems than they create." --D. Keith Casey, Jr., API Problem Solver, CaseySoftware, LLC "Following James's clear and easy-to-follow guide, in one afternoon I was able to apply his process to current real-world use cases. I now have the practical guidance, techniques, and clear examples to help me take those next vital steps. Recommended reading for anyone connected to and working with APIs." --Joyce Stack, Architect, Elsevier " Principles of Web API Design uncovers more than principles. In it, you'll learn a process--a method to design APIs." --Arnaud Lauret, API Handyman "This insightful playbook guides API teams through a structured process that fosters productive collaboration, valuable capability identification, and best-practice contract crafting. James distills years of experience into a pragmatic roadmap for defining and refining API products, and also provides a primer for API security, eventing, resiliency, and microservices alignment. A must-read for architects either new to the API discipline or responsible for onboarding new teams and instituting a structured API definition process." --Chris Haddad, Chief Architect, Karux LLC

Long Description

This is a comprehensive, start-to-finish guide to the processes required for effective API design. Unlike other books, it covers the entire lifecycle. Leading API and microservices consultant James Higginbotham shows how API development teams can successfully integrate processes that occur before, during, and after API design, to scale API development far beyond single individuals or small teams. Higginbotham addresses REST in depth while also fully covering RPC and graph-based API design, as well as messaging, streaming, and event-based async APIs. Coverage includes: The art of API design, and an overview of the API design process Crafting job stories, conducting EventStorming sessions, and modeling API capabilities Designing APIs that can easily evolve Implementing APIs, and moving to microservices Improving API quality through effective testing, documentation, and protection mechanisms Establishing and maturing your API program: leveraging program and data management techniques that scale

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"I've had the good fortune to work alongside and learn from James over the past several years. His varied institutional knowledge, along with his depth of experience and eye for practical application, makes him unique among his peers. I am ecstatic that others now have the opportunity, in this book, to benefit from James's compelling, pragmatic vision for how to make better APIs. Principles of Web API Design surveys the gamut of available techniques and sets forth a prescriptive, easy-to-follow approach. Teams that apply the guidance in this book will create APIs that better resonate with customers, deliver more business value in less time, and require fewer breaking changes. I cannot recommend Principles of Web API Design enough." --Matthew Reinbold, Director of API Ecosystems, Postman "In modern software development, APIs end up being both the cause of and solution to many of the problems we face. James's process for dissecting, analyzing, and designing APIs from concepts to caching creates a repeatable approach for teams to solve more problems than they create." --D. Keith Casey, Jr., API Problem Solver, CaseySoftware, LLC "Following James's clear and easy-to-follow guide, in one afternoon I was able to apply his process to current real-world use cases. I now have the practical guidance, techniques, and clear examples to help me take those next vital steps. Recommended reading for anyone connected to and working with APIs." --Joyce Stack, Architect, Elsevier " Principles of Web API Design uncovers more than principles. In it, you'll learn a process--a method to design APIs." --Arnaud Lauret, API Handyman "This insightful playbook guides API teams through a structured process that fosters productive collaboration, valuable capability identification, and best-practice contract crafting. James distills years of experience into a pragmatic roadmap for defining and refining API products, and also provides a primer for API security, eventing, resiliency, and microservices alignment. A must-read for architects either new to the API discipline or responsible for onboarding new teams and instituting a structured API definition process." --Chris Haddad, Chief Architect, Karux LLC

Feature

All you need to know to design any API and scale API design processes Real-world insights the author has gleaned from his 5+ years of training and hands-on coaching of API teams in diverse environments Addresses all leading styles of API development, including REST, RPC, GraphQL, messaging, streaming, and event-based async APIs Offers a proven, start-to-finish process for moving from requirements to optimal design, based on audience requirements Part of the highly respected Addison-Wesley Signature Series

Details ISBN0137355637 Author James Higginbotham Language English ISBN-10 0137355637 ISBN-13 9780137355631 Format Paperback Country of Publication United States Series Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Vernon) Pages 368 Subtitle Delivering Value with APIs and Microservices Imprint Addison Wesley Place of Publication Boston AU Release Date 2022-03-05 NZ Release Date 2022-03-05 US Release Date 2022-03-05 Year 2022 Publication Date 2022-03-05 UK Release Date 2022-03-05 Publisher Pearson Education (US) DEWEY 005.3 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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