Mike Amundsen

Mehdi Medjaoui

Ronnie Mitra

Erik Wilde

Continuous API Management: Making the Right Decisions in an Evolving Landscape

A lot of work is required to release an API, but the effort doesn’t always pay off. Overplanning before an API matures is a wasted investment, while underplanning can lead to disaster. This practical guide provides maturity models for individual APIs and multi-API landscapes to help you invest the right human and company resources for the right maturity level at the right time. How do you balance the desire for agility and speed with the need for robust and scalable operations? Four experts from the API Academy show software architects, program directors, and product owners how to maximize the value of their APIs by managing them as products through a continuous life cycle. Learn which API decisions you need to govern and how and where to do so Design, deploy, and manage APIs using an API-as-a-product (AaaP) approach Examine ten pillars that form the foundation of API product work Learn how the continuous improvement model governs changes throughout an API’s lifetime Explore the five stages of a complete API product life cycle Delve into team roles needed to design, build, and maintain your APIs Learn how to manage your API landscape—the set of APIs published by your organization

Making the Right Decisions in an Evolving Landscape

Continuous API Management

Erik Wilde gives readers comprehensive details on how the World Wide Web works, as well as probable trends in its technical development. He offers a thorough description of all relevant WWW development, complete with definitions and standards, including the latest versions of the transfer protocol, the description language, the foundations of the description language, style sheets, and Web server issues.

Wilde's WWW

Cesare Pautasso

This volume provides an overview and an understanding of REST (Representational State Transfer). Discussing the constraints of REST the book focuses on REST as a type of web architectural style. The focus is on applying REST beyond Web applications (i.e., in enterprise environments), and in reusing established and well-understood design patterns when doing so. The reader will be able to understand how RESTful systems can be designed and deployed, and what the results are in terms of benefits and challenges encountered in the process. Since REST is relatively new as an approach for designing Web Services, the more advanced part of the book collects a number of challenges to some of the assumptions and constraints of REST, and looks at current research work on how REST can be extended and applied to scenarios that often are considered not to be a good match for REST. This work will help readers to reach a deeper understanding of REST on a practical as well as on an advanced level.

REST: From Research to Practice

This book provides readers with comprehensive details on how the WWW works, complete with definitions and standards. It discusses the latest versions of the transfer protocol (HTTP 1.1), the description language (HTML 4.0), the foundations of the description language (SGML and XML), style sheets (CSS1), web servers, and security (SSL and CGI). Issues of importance for the future development of the WWW are discussed, including virtual reality (VRML), portable network graphics (PNG), and MathML.

Technical Foundations of the World Wide Web

Wilde’s WWW

Das World Wide Web ist zweifelsohne eine der wichtigsten Entwicklungen des vergangenen Jahrzehnts. Seit den Anfängen 1990 hat es sich von einem zunächst sehr einfachen Modell von Ressource-Namen (URL), einem Übertragungsprotokoll (HTTP) und einer Sprache für die Beschreibung miteinander verbundener Dokumente (HTML) zu einer weit komplexeren Infrastruktur entwickelt. Dieses Buch gibt eine umfassende technische Beschreibung aller relevanten WWW Entwicklungen von den Anfängen bis heute, einschließlich der neuesten Versionen des Hypertext-Transfer-Protokolls (HTTP/1.1) und der Beschreibungssprache (HTML 4.0), der Grundlagen der Beschreibungssprache (SGML und die aufstrebende Variante XML), der Style Sheets (CSS1 und CSS2), der Server-Technik (SSL, CGI und Apache als Beispiel eines Web Servers) sowie einiger Entwicklungen, die in Zukunft an Bedeutung gewinnen werden (MathML, PNG, XPointer, XLink).

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