Designing Web APIs: Building APIs That Developers Love

Designing Web APIs: Building APIs That Developers Love

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672 pages

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Jun 2009

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13.9 Mo

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O'Reilly Media

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978-0596804084

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Original price was: $57.99.Current price is: $9.99.

672 pages

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Jun 2009

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English

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13.9 Mo

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O'Reilly Media

Publisher

978-0596804084

ISBN

Book overview

Using a web API to provide services to application developers is one of the more satisfying endeavors that software engineers undertake. But building a popular API with a thriving developer ecosystem is also one of the most challenging. With this practical guide, developers, architects, and tech leads will learn how to navigate complex decisions for designing, scaling, marketing, and evolving interoperable APIs.

Authors Brenda Jin, Saurabh Sahni, and Amir Shevat explain API design theory and provide hands-on exercises for building your web API and managing its operation in production. You’ll also learn how to build and maintain a following of app developers. This book includes expert advice, worksheets, checklists, and case studies from companies including Slack, Stripe, Facebook, Microsoft, Cloudinary, Oracle, and GitHub.

  • Get an overview of request-response and event-driven API design paradigms
  • Learn best practices for designing an API that meets the needs of your users
  • Use a template to create an API design process
  • Scale your web API to support a growing number of API calls and use cases
  • Regularly adapt the API to reflect changes to your product or business
  • Provide developer resources that include API documentation, samples, and tools

About the author

Alistair Croll has been an entrepreneur, author, and public speaker for nearly 20 years. He’s worked on a variety of topics, from web performance, to big data, to cloud computing, to startups, in that time.

In 2001, he co-founded web performance startup Coradiant, and since that time has also launched Rednod, CloudOps, Bitcurrent, Year One Labs, the Bitnorth conference, the International Startup Festival and several other early-stage companies.

Alistair is the chair of O'Reilly's Strata Conference, Techweb's Cloud Connect, and the International Startup Festival. Lean Analytics is his fourth book on analytics, technology, and entrepreneurship. He lives in Montreal, Canada and tries to mitigate chronic ADD by writing about far too many things at Solve For Interesting.

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