REST in PracticeJim Webber
REST in Practice
Hypermedia and Systems Architecture
by Jim Webber · first published 2010
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…scheme in your response body (e.g. JSON Schema describes 'link' attributes). A pretty good RESTful API is Github's (see http://developer.github.com/). If you'd like to learn more, I highly recommend "REST in Practice" by Webber, et al (http://www.amazon.ca/REST-Practice-Hypermedia-Systems-Archit...).
on “How Not to write a "REST" API” ↗…all very different from one another. There are similar concepts between them, like accelerating, steering, breaking, but how they do each of those things is very different. A good book I recommend is "REST in Practice" by Jim Webber, Savas Parastatidis, and Ian Robinson (http://www.amazon.com/REST-Practice-Hypermedia-Systems-Archi... or http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596805838.do). That helped me grasp what REST…
on “What exactly is RESTful programming?” ↗REST in Practice[1], Building Hypermedia APIs with HTML5 and Node[2] and Designing Hypermedia APIs[3]. 1. https://www.amazon.com/REST-Practice-Hypermedia-Systems-Arch... 2. https://www.amazon.com/Building-Hypermedia-APIs-HTML5-Node/d...…
on “Ask HN: What is your go-to example for a good REST API?” ↗…enterprise APIs team) - Designing Data-Intensive Applications - Camel in Action Good for lending out: - The Phoenix Project - Making Work Visible - Effective DevOps - The Pragmatic Programmer - REST in Practice
on “Ask HN: What books do you keep on your desk?” ↗…HATEOAS sense as popularized twenty years ago by some proponents of this. However, looking back that mostly did not get very popular. I actually met with Jim Webber a couple of times. He co-authored "REST in Practice", which is sort of the HATEOAS bible together with the og. HTTP spec by mr. REST Roy Fielding. Lovely guy but I think he moved on from talking a lot about that topic. He's been at neo4j for more than…
on “Understanding gRPC, OpenAPI and REST and when to use them in API design (2020)” ↗This reminds me of the coffee shop example in the book REST in Practice. http://www.amazon.com/review/RAL4KK80FQVGE/ref=cm_cr_pr_view...
on “Show HN: CaaS - Coffee as a Service” ↗Also there is this 5 year old book "REST in Practice" which defines several levels of RESTfulness
on “What RESTful actually means” ↗"Rest in Practice" (if I'm remembering the right book) would disagree strenuously with you. Once you're doing REST instead of just "somewhat sane JSON responses" then the response has self-descriptive elements, including…
on “Paginating Requests in APIs (2020)” ↗