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Restful Web APIs: Services for a Changing World by Sam Ruby, Mike Amundsen, Leonard Richardson
laurentlbm's review
5.0
This book should be mandatory reading for all developers that build or simply use Web APIs.
It aims to help API designers build better, future-proof systems, using hypermedia. This is not a simple task, so it doesn't have all the answers. REST might have won the philosophical debate against SOAP and others like it, but there is still a lot to do to have real RESTful APIs. The book points out very well the shortcomings of current design practices and explains why leaning towards a more hypermedia-based approach will help.
It aims to help API designers build better, future-proof systems, using hypermedia. This is not a simple task, so it doesn't have all the answers. REST might have won the philosophical debate against SOAP and others like it, but there is still a lot to do to have real RESTful APIs. The book points out very well the shortcomings of current design practices and explains why leaning towards a more hypermedia-based approach will help.
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