Microservice APIs

Strategies, best practices, and patterns that will help you design resilient microservices architecture and streamline your API integrations.

In Microservice APIs , you’ll

Microservice APIs teaches you practical techniques for designing robust microservices with APIs that are easy to understand, consume, and maintain. You’ll benefit from author José Haro Peralta’s years of experience experimenting with microservices architecture, dodging pitfalls and learning from mistakes he’s made. Inside you’ll find strategies for delivering successful API integrations, implementing services with clear boundaries, managing cloud deployments, and handling microservices security. Written in a framework-agnostic manner, its universal principles can easily be applied to your favorite stack and toolset.

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About the technology
Clean, clear APIs are essential to the success of microservice applications. Well-designed APIs enable reliable integrations between services and help simplify maintenance, scaling, and redesigns. This book teaches you the patterns, protocols, and strategies you need to design, build, and deploy effective REST and GraphQL microservices APIs.

About the book
Microservice APIs gathers proven techniques for creating and building easy-to-consume APIs for microservices applications. Rich with proven advice and Python-based examples, this practical book focuses on implementation over philosophy. You’ll learn how to build robust microservice APIs, test and protect them, and deploy them to the cloud following principles and patterns that work in any language.

What’s inside

About the reader
For developers familiar with the basics of web development. Examples are in Python.

About the author
José Haro Peralta is a consultant, author, and instructor. He’s also the founder of microapis.io.

Table of Contents
PART 1 INTRODUCING MICROSERVICE APIS
1 What are microservice APIs?
2 A basic API implementation
3 Designing microservices

PART 2 DESIGNING AND BUILDING REST APIS
4 Principles of REST API design
5 Documenting REST APIs with OpenAPI
6 Building REST APIs with Python
7 Service implementation patterns for microservices

PART 3 DESIGNING AND BUILDING GRAPHQL APIS
8 Designing GraphQL APIs
9 Consuming GraphQL APIs
10 Building GraphQL APIs with Python

PART 4 SECURING, TESTING, AND DEPLOYING MICROSERVICE APIS
11 API authorization and authentication
12 Testing and validating APIs
13 Dockerizing microservice APIs
14 Deploying microservice APIs with Kubernetes

Size: A4(20*28cm)

Printing: 80 gm – color

Cover: Softcover