Let’s Have Some Effective REST!
Talkat JCON Europe 2023 · on Wednesday, 2023-06-21· at 13:00· Cinema Blackbox, Im Mediapark 1, 50670 Köln, Germany·
summary
Covers concrete rules: identify participants and activities, map activities to verbs and expose resources as plural nouns, paper-test the API contract before coding, and validate with test plans. Explains three migration strategies—brute‑force, greenfield, facade—and gives a real example: wrapping a COBOL pension backend with a plugin to expose REST for a mobile app (worked). Recommends specific HTTP practices: use HEAD to check existence, standard codes (200/201/202/204/404), and ETag caching, plus stateless auth (JWT/OpenID) and HATEOAS links.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Intro
- 3:00Agenda
- 5:40Three Approaches to API
- 10:30Adding an API
- 14:20Design Process
- 21:03API Definition
- 27:53Relationship between resources
- 30:53Validate API
- 32:33Why HTTP
- 36:48Why REST
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