The Rest of ReST
summary
Starts from a small profiles API and shows concrete failure modes: a collection that scales to two million entries clobbers bandwidth, paginated endpoints leak client state, and a profile that expands into friends/photos creates 50 HTTP requests to render one page. Demonstrates fixes: HAL+JSON hypermedia links and resource expansion to embed related items, RFC 5789/JSON Patch patterns to avoid 409 conflicts, cache-for-infinity advice, and OAuth2 access/refresh token flow for safe third‑party access — all practical, implementable patterns.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Introduction
- 4:10What is REST?
- 6:44Roy Fielding and REST
- 10:16REST Constraints
- 12:43Caching and Layering
- 16:09Uniform Interface
- 18:10Superheroes Case Study
- 20:52Pagination and State
- 22:41Hypermedia Implementation
- 26:30API Granularity
- 30:32Resource Expansion
- 33:58Hypermedia Formats
- 37:22API Actions and Updates
- 41:55Implementing Patch
- 45:44API Versioning Strategies
- 50:54Versioning in Code
- 53:31Security with OAuth2
- 58:41Q&A and Conclusion
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