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Cloud-Native Applications in Java

You're reading from Cloud-Native Applications in Java Build microservice-based cloud-native applications that dynamically scale

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787124349

Length 406 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Spring

Concepts

Cloud Native

Authors (4):

Olsson

Mahajan

Kumar Gupta

S

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Title Page

Dedication

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Foreword

Contributors

Preface

1. Introduction to Cloud-Native FREE CHAPTER

2. Writing Your First Cloud-Native Application

3. Designing Your Cloud-Native Application

4. Extending Your Cloud-Native Application

5. Testing Cloud-Native Applications

6. Cloud-Native Application Deployment

7. Cloud-Native Application Runtime

8. Platform Deployment – AWS

9. Platform Deployment – Azure

10. As a Service Integration

11. API Design Best Practices

12. Digital Transformation

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Chapter 11. API Design Best Practices

This chapter discusses how to design consumer-centric APIs that are granular and functionality-oriented. It also discusses the various best practices for API design concerns, such as how to identify the resources that will be used to form the API, how to categorize the APIs, API error handling, API versioning, and so on. We will cover models for describing the API through Open API and RAML.

We will cover the following topics:

API design concerns
API gateway deployment

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Authors (4)

Olsson

Olsson

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Mahajan

Mahajan

Ajay Mahajan is a distinguished member of technical staff (DMTS) at Wipro Technologies and currently is in the role of chief technologist of the retail vertical. In his current role, he helps customers adopt cloud-native and digital architecture for next-generation retail applications. He worked with retail and banking clients in Europe and the USA on large-scale mission-critical systems. He has seen the evolution of enterprise Java from the Netscape Application Server to servlets/JSP, JEE, Spring, and now the cloud and microservices during the course of 19 years of working on Java platform.

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Kumar Gupta

Kumar Gupta

Munish Kumar Gupta is a lead system architect with Visa. Based in Bangalore, India, his day-to-day work involves solution architectures for applications with stringent non-functional requirements, application performance engineering, managing application infrastructure, and exploring the readiness of cutting-edge, open-source technologies for enterprise adoption. He is the author of Akka Essentials. He is very passionate about software programming and craftsmanship. He blogs about technology trends, application performance engineering, and Akka.

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S

S

Shyam Sundar is a senior architect with Wipro Technologies based in Bangalore. He is part of the Emerging Technologies Architecture group within Wipro. He is responsible for helping teams adopt new and emerging technologies in their projects. He focuses primarily on the client-side and cloud technologies. He is a lifelong learner who cares deeply about software craftsmanship. He is constantly experimenting with new tools and technologies to improve the development experience.

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