Summary

Arnaud Lauret, who blogs as the API Handyman after ten years designing APIs in banking, argues that API design is a distinct skill separate from whichever technology builds the API, whether REST, GraphQL, or gRPC. The book starts from gathering requirements and adopting a consumer-first mindset, then works through programming interface design, OpenAPI description formats, simplicity, predictability, and security, before turning to versioning, pagination, and documentation for APIs already in production. Its many small, concrete examples focus on the design decisions consumers actually feel, not the protocol underneath them.

Target Readers

• Backend developers who can implement REST endpoints but haven't yet reasoned explicitly about consumer-first API design
• Teams adopting OpenAPI as a schema-first workflow who want the design principles behind the specification, not just its syntax
• API designers responsible for versioning and evolving a production API without breaking existing consumers

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Publisher

翔泳社

ISBN

978-4798167015

Published

Aug 2020

List price

¥4,180incl. taxMay differ from the actual selling price on Amazon