Designing API-First Enterprise Architectures on Azure: A guide for architects and developers to expedite digital transformation with API-led architectures

by Subhajit Chatterjee

Innovate at scale through well-architected API-led products that drive personalized, predictive, and adaptive customer experiences

Key FeaturesStrategize your IT investments by modeling enterprise solutions with an API-centric approachBuild robust and reliable API platforms to boost business agility and omnichannel deliveryCreate digital value chains through the productization of your APIsBook DescriptionAPI-centric architectures are foundational to delivering omnichannel experiences for an enterprise. With this book, developers will learn techniques to design loosely coupled, cloud-based, business-tier interfaces that can be consumed by a variety of client applications.

Using real-world examples and case studies, the book helps you get to grips with the cloudbased design and implementation of reliable and resilient API-centric solutions. Starting with the evolution of enterprise applications, you'll learn how API-based integration architectures drive digital transformation. You'll then learn about the important principles and practices that apply to cloud-based API architectures and advance to exploring the different architecture styles and their implementation in Azure. This book is written from a practitioner's point of view, so you'll discover ideas and practices that have worked successfully in various customer scenarios.

By the end of this book, you'll be able to architect, design, deploy, and monetize your API solutions in the Azure cloud while implementing best practices and industry standards.

What you will learnExplore the benefits of API-led architecture in an enterpriseBuild highly reliable and resilient, cloud-based, API-centric solutionsPlan technical initiatives based on Well-Architected Framework principlesGet to grips with the productization and management of your API assets for value creationDesign high-scale enterprise integration platforms on the Azure cloudStudy the important principles and practices that apply to cloud-based API architecturesWho this book is forThis book is for solution architects, developers, engineers, DevOps professionals, and IT decision-makers who are responsible for designing and developing large distributed systems. Familiarity with enterprise solution architectures and cloud-based design will help you to comprehend the concepts covered in the book easily.

Table of ContentsEvolution of Enterprise Architectures APIs as Digital Connectors Architecture Principles and API StylesAssuring the quality of the API Service (or Product)RESTful API - The New Web Standard API Design PracticesAccelerate through DevOps Essentials API-Centric Enterprise IntegrationsAPI as a Monetized Product

290 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 24, 2021

Reviews

[Adi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Getting Software Engineering right requires a lot of practice and failure. You often find literature on either theory or a framework covering a specific area of it. This book is rare in that aspect. It covers both theory and practice. You can learn the naunces of taking a product from inception to production, and maintain it. Various concepts were explained with a case study which enables the reader to get his/her hands dirty. Although the choice of platform is Azure, you can easily relate to AWS or GCP if you are familiar with them.

In many ways this book is modern. It can help you catch up with modern development methods, tools, and frameworks.