2024-01-21 15:21:00
In the months leading up to my PDSO CASP studies I read José Haro Peralto's "Microservice APIs". On and off, between classes and between other things I was learning. It's been a long read, but I can heartily recommend it.
I can honestly say that José's excellent book is what taught me the most I now know about how APIs work! And it most certainly made a lot of things clear, which I also learned about in CASP.
Before I read "Microservice APIs" I had a foundational grasp of how REST and SOAP APIs look from the outside, as consumer. I'd used OpenAPI specs, I'd read through WSDL files and I'd made API calls through HTTP. But I never really understood how it all worked on the server side.
José's book makes all of that server side magic crystal clear!
The book explains foundational and deep technical aspects of building multiple interacting APIs, which together form the backend of an online coffee product shop. And José shows all of it! All the Python code to load the frameworks, to write the queries and to build the endpoints. All of the code needed for GraphQL and two different REST implementations. And even a bit of authentication and authorization! Heck, appendix C of the book turns out to have exactly what I was looking for when I wanted to learn about integrating OIDC and OAuth into the authorization checks of an API!
If you hadn't guessed yet: "A+ would recommend".
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