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Creating Maintainable APIs

A Practical, Case-Study Approach

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Authors:
  1. Ervin Varga

    1. Expro I.T. Consulting, Kikinda, Serbia

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  • This is a unique contemporary book for any software engineer or experienced APIs programmers/coder

  • Employs a practical, case studies-driven approach to creating maintainable APIs

  • Written by an expert software engineer and production manager

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Information Hiding and APIs

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    Pages 1-16

  3. Modular Design

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    Pages 17-43

  4. Designing Classes for Reuse

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    Pages 45-67

  5. TDD as an API Design Technique

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    Pages 69-95

  6. Identifying Resources

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    Pages 97-107

  7. Versioning REST APIs

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    Pages 109-118

  8. Encoding Actions on Resources

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    Pages 119-133

  9. Implementing Synchronous and Asynchronous REST APIs

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    Pages 135-141

  10. Documenting REST APIs

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    Pages 143-157

  11. Testing REST APIs

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    Pages 159-169

  12. Implementing Messaging APIs

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    Pages 171-185

  13. Apache Kafka as a Messaging Hub

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    Pages 187-201

  14. Testing Messaging APIs

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    Pages 203-213

  15. Schema-Based Messages

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    Pages 215-227

  16. The Core JSON API

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    Pages 229-247

  17. Evolving the JSON API

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    Pages 249-267

  18. Katharsis

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    Pages 269-288

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 289-293
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About this book


Build straightforward and maintainable APIs to create services that are usable and maintainable. Although this book focuses on distributed services, it also emphasizes how the core principles apply even to pure OOD and OOP constructs. 


The overall context of Creating Maintainable APIs is to classify the topics into four main areas: classes and interfaces, HTTP REST APIs, messaging APIs, and message payloads (XML, JSON and JSON API as well as Apache Avro).




What You Will Learn
  • Use object-oriented design constructs and their APIs
  • Create and manage HTTP REST APIs
  • Build and manage maintainable messaging APIs, including the use of Apache Kafka as a principal messaging hub
  • Handle message payloads via JSON






Who This Book Is For


Any level software engineers and very experienced programmers.



Authors and Affiliations

  • Expro I.T. Consulting, Kikinda, Serbia

    Ervin Varga

About the author

Ervin Varga is in the software industry as a professional software engineer since 1994. He is an IEEE Software Engineering Certified Instructor, and an assistant professor at the University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Novi Sad, Serbia. As an owner of the software consulting company Expro I.T. Consulting, he is always in touch with production software. Consequently, he does posses production level expertise with the content of this book.  Lastly, Ervin has a M.Sc. from computer science, and a Ph.D. from electrical engineering (my thesis was an application of software engineering/computer science in the domain of electrical power systems).

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