API Design

JSON succeeded not because it was better--XML had schemas, namespaces, and 10 years of tooling, but because it understood modularity in ways XML never could. This book deconstructs how a deliberately incomplete format defeated a comprehensive standard, then shows you the production patterns (JSON Schema, JSONB, MessagePack, versioning strategies) that make JSON systems scale from prototype to billions of requests.

“Happily purchased. Handy to have these in one place. Thank you!” — Kent Beck “Excellent new thinking on Domain-Driven Design. It's full of real practical experience in getting the most value from domain modelling. Just like the Eric Evans' DDD book, this gives more insight each time you read it.” — Ian Russell

Build bulletproof Spring Boot microservices—from monolith migration to domain-driven design and event-driven patterns—while mastering the production essentials of resilience, observability, and zero‑downtime delivery. Turn complex domains into clean, scalable services with bounded contexts, aggregates, repositories, and domain events, then ship faster with rate‑limited APIs, backoff‑retries, and Kubernetes rollouts. If leading Java teams to reliable, cloud‑ready microservices is the goal, this is the hands‑on guide that gets systems into production with confidence.

One of the most comprehensive no-fluff guides for software developers to help them write clean code every day. The book is packed with principles and patterns that help developers, from novices and juniors to seniors and experts, to write cleaner code.

Learn API design as contract design through clear illustrations and practical support-ticket examples. Build a foundation in HTTP, resources, security, reliability, and backward-compatible change for everyday systems engineering work.

This book visually presents an illustrated collection of real-world Web APIs - All rigorously sans titre. There is no better way to learn how to design a good API than to look and see how it's been done before.

A production crisis. Three developers. Fifty cinematic comic lessons. Master Java threads, race conditions, synchronization, and deadlocks through an unforgettable manga-style adventure.

A compilation of top best practices for improving the developer experience for an API-as-a-Product.

Build a practical gRPC foundation through visual explanations of service contracts, remote calls, streaming, reliability, security, and operations.

Understand how Model Context Protocol hosts, clients, and servers work together. Visual explanations introduce capabilities, message flows, transports, security boundaries, and reliable MCP engineering.

A practical guide to building reliable LLM integrations that hold up in production. Learn how to design provider-agnostic APIs, handle failures, add observability and security, and keep your architecture maintainable. With a complete Python codebase, this book turns proven patterns into working software.

AI models do not have to be huge, slow or expensive. Distilling Intelligence explores how to build smaller models that perform at scale, then secure the APIs that serve them. From compression and distributed serving to extraction attacks, observability and incident response, this book covers what it takes to run AI reliably in the real world.

Take your Delphi skills beyond the basics and learn how to build real-world web applications with DMVCFramework. From your first REST API to secure, scalable services, this practical guide covers the tools, patterns and techniques you need to build, test and deploy production-ready applications with confidence.

Build robust web applications and REST APIs with Haskell and Servant. This practical guide takes you from core Haskell concepts to type-safe API design, PostgreSQL, JWT authentication, testing and deployment. Along the way, you’ll build a complete versioned API using patterns that make real-world Servant projects reliable and maintainable.

Six years after the first edition, the official guide to DelphiMVCFramework is back, rewritten for 3.5.0-silicon. Thirty chapters, more than 550 pages, and 46 Delphi projects that compile and run. You build one real API, the Municipal Library, and grow it from a wizard-generated project into a deployed server with authentication, OpenID Connect, WebSockets and HTTPS.