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Roy Fielding once described REST as “software design on the scale of decades: every detail is intended to promote software longevity and independent evolution. Many of the constraints are directly opposed to short-term efficiency.” Essentially, Fielding acknowledged that developers often execute short-term design without long-term design in mind, which causes inadaptability as technology evolves.

API Design on the Scale of Decades is a response to this sentiment, digging deep to acknowledge modern web Application Programming Interface architectures and design decisions that will truly stand the test of time. In this volume we provide analysis of API design best practices that make quality developer programs truly stand out, including:

An introduction and history of Representational State Transfer (REST)
Assessment of GraphQL as an API query alternative
Technical case studies in scaling internal API architectures
Versioning strategies that optimize efficiency
How to implement agile, serverless API backends
Learning from API design anti-patterns with microservices
Securing the future Internet of Things (IoT) with OAuth 2.0 + OpenID Connect
Deploying API management in an enterprise context
Benefits of building on Open Standards and the Open API Specification
and more...

In October 2016 Nordic APIs held it's annual Platform Summit centered on this theme, bringing together over 300 API industry thought leaders to share their insights on what it means to architect and design APIs on the scale of decades. The event detailed design techniques for platform longevity, as well as operational components of sustaining a working API business model.

API Design on the Scale of Decades gathers some of the best information shared by speakers at the 2016 Platform Summit; so even if you weren't able to attend, you can now catch a part of the experience! For this book, we took the 15 most popular speaker sessions on API design technique, and used them as inspiration to craft in-depth chapters on a wide range of API design topics.

All the proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to the Red Cross in Sweden.

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