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  1. REST API Documentation for Rails
    REST API Documentation for Rails
    A complete guide on creating RESTful API Documentation for your Ruby on Rails application.
    Blake Erickson
    No Description Available
  2. Design and Reality
    Design and Reality
    Essays on Software Design
    Rebecca Wirfs-Brock and Mathias Verraes

    “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

  3. Developer Experience
    Developer Experience
    Top strategies to improve the developer experience of your API
    Nordic APIs

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

  4. RESTful Dictionary
    RESTful Dictionary
    English - HTTP
    Cesare Pautasso

    Which HTTP method should I pick for my API path? Look it up in the RESTful dictionary.

  5. Beautiful Big APIs
    Beautiful Big APIs
    Cesare Pautasso

    In an industry heading towards smaller and smaller microservices, why so many big APIs are still out there? When facing the sheer complication of a Web API landscape with thousands and thousands of operations, where do you start? Enjoy the overview.

  6. Domain-Driven Design And Microservices Explained with Examples
    Domain-Driven Design And Microservices Explained with Examples
    Learn to clarify and focus the boundaries of your system’s architecture
    Sandeep Jagtap
    No Description Available
  7. Beautiful API Evolution

    Web APIs change, slowly. Watch how their structure evolved over the years with these beautiful illustrations. There is no better way to learn how to improve your API design than to look and see how other APIs have been changed before.

  8. API as a Product
    API as a Product
    Tips for Running an API-centric SaaS Business
    Nordic APIs

    API-as-a-Product is a rising trend. Here are monetization techniques, developer experience advice, and other insights you can use to create a working business model around an API-as-a-product.

  9. Design Practice Reference
    Design Practice Reference
    Activities and Templates to Craft Quality Software in Style
    Olaf Zimmermann and Mirko Stocker

    A collection of proven software engineering and architecture design method elements to accelerate project work and reduce technical risk. Suited for API design and (micro-)service architectures. Activity descriptions and artifact templates for non-functional requirements, domain models, architectural decision records, API contracts. Sample content.

  10. Beautiful APIs
    Beautiful APIs
    Cesare Pautasso

    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.

  11. Automated API testing
    Automated API testing
    Automated API testing
    Anton Smirnov

    This book will be a lot of programming and describing patterns. I tried to create instructions on how to write code for API testing. In this book, I tried to focus more on the concept of how and with what vision it is necessary to approach the testing of an API.

  12. Automated API testing
    Automated API testing
    Automated API testing
    Anton Smirnov

    This book will be a lot of programming and describing patterns. I tried to create instructions on how to write code for API testing. In this book, I tried to focus more on the concept of how and with what vision it is necessary to approach the testing of an API.

  13. Undisturbed REST: a Guide to Designing the Perfect API
    Undisturbed REST: a Guide to Designing the Perfect API
    Second Edition
    Nomad PHP and Mike Stowe

    The second edition of Mike Stowe's best selling book on API design is packed with even more information and updates on APIs including building an API-led architecture, GraphQL, new innovations in REST, security concerns, and more.

  14. Clojure Time
    Clojure Time
    Getting Started with Date/Time Manipulation in Clojure
    Paul Legato

    An introduction to the art and science of manipulating dates and times in Clojure using the builtin Java 8 java.time API. This supersedes the popular Joda Time library, which heavily influenced its design.

  15. Identity And APIs
    Identity And APIs
    Techniques to Mature Platform Security
    Nordic APIs

    Much of API security boils down to how you handle identity. In Identity and APIs, we discover the techniques to secure platform access and delegate access throughout a mature API ecosystem.