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Better APIs

Quality, Stability, Observability

About the Book

This book is a practical guide to improving the quality, stability, and observability of your APIs. Through a combination of theoretical insights and a hands-on example project, you'll learn how to create and maintain production-grade APIs that meet high standards of excellence. Better APIs: Quality, Stability, Observability is designed for developers and architects who want to deepen their understanding of API development and ensure their APIs are reliable, maintainable, and easy to monitor.

APIs are the backbone of modern software architecture, and ensuring they are of high quality, stable, and observable is critical to the success of any software project. This book provides you with the tools and knowledge to create APIs that meet these criteria, helping you avoid common pitfalls and ensuring your APIs can scale and evolve over time.

Among other things, you'll learn:

  • How to build APIs that are well-architected, secure, and maintainable.
  • Strategies for ensuring the stability of your APIs, allowing them to withstand external pressures and internal changes without compromising their core functionality.
  • Techniques for enhancing observability, giving you the tools to monitor and understand your API's behavior in real-time, ensuring it's performing as expected.
  • Practical methods for implementing continuous integration and deployment, automated testing, and proper documentation to support your API's lifecycle.
  • How to apply these concepts to a real-world project, using the example of a fictional scenario to demonstrate best practices and common pitfalls.

Authored by Mikael Vesavuori, an experienced software architect and developer, this book is not just a theoretical exploration but a practical guide that will help you improve your API development practices.

Whether you're looking to refine your existing APIs or build new ones from scratch, Better APIs: Quality, Stability, Observability will provide you with the insights and techniques you need to succeed and create APIs that are not only functional but also robust, maintainable, and easy to monitor.

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Mikael Vesavuori
Mikael Vesavuori

My name is Mikael Vesavuori, and I architect, develop and design experiences & interactions.

Currently, I am co-founding Popcorn Cloud, which enables the creation and operation of sustainable, scalable, best-practices-driven software deployed to the cloud in a simple, abstracted way that even non-developers can perform.

Most recently, I was Technical Standards Lead at Polestar, where I was also responsible for leading the Software Engineers Competence Group and being the Developer Advocate in our Open Source Program Office. I also initiated and continuously supported the work of the Platform Services and Developer Experience teams.

Prior to this, I was the Lead Cloud Architect at Humblebee, Lead Frontend Developer at Sogeti, and in 2015 I co-founded Being with Nika Helia Persson.

I've also given talks, presentations, and lectures at (among other places) the University of California, CloudNativeGbg, React Gothenburg Meetup, AWS User Group Göteborg, Världskulturmuseet, and Varbergs Konsthall.

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