RESTful API Design: Best Practices in API Design with REST (API-University Series Book 3)

Looking for best practices in RESTful API Design? This book is for you! This book is packed with best practices on technical aspects of RESTful API Design, including the correct use of resources, URIs, representations, content types, data formats, parameters, HTTP status codes and HTTP methods. It also includes best practices for evolution and versioning, security, performance and availability issues.

API description languages (RAML and Swagger) are introduced as a way to document your API design decisions.

An API development methodology is proposed to provide some guidance towards efficient API development.

The API-University Series is a modular series of books on API-related topics. Each book focuses on a particular API topic, so you can select the topics within APIs, which are relevant for you.