API = Some REST and HTTP, Right? RIGHT?!
summary
A practical guide to building maintainable APIs: covers concrete problems like brittle versioning, poor error design, and unclear contracts, and gives strategies to avoid those failures. Compares architectures—when to use REST, when GraphQL helps, and when gRPC is the right choice—and discusses HATEOAS and real-world approaches to evolve and scale HTTP/JSON APIs.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction to APIs
- 1:50SOAP vs REST history
- 8:51HTTP status codes importance
- 12:38Jakarta EE REST basics
- 14:23Hypermedia in REST
- 16:50API versioning methods
- 21:29Deprecating API versions
- 25:26Documenting APIs with OpenAPI
- 28:39Security best practices
- 32:11Advanced API patterns
- 36:42Beyond REST alternatives
- 39:50Talk summary and resources
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