Build straightforward and maintainable APIs to create services that are usable and
maintainable. Although this book focuses on distributed services it also emphasizes how the
core principles apply even to pure OOD and OOP constructs. The overall context of Creating
Maintainable APIs is to classify the topics into four main areas: classes and interfaces HTTP
REST APIs messaging APIs and message payloads (XML JSON and JSON API as well as Apache
Avro). What You Will Learn Use object-oriented design constructs and their APIs Create and
manage HTTP REST APIs Build and manage maintainable messaging APIs including the use of Apache
Kafka as a principal messaging hub Handle message payloads via JSON Who This Book Is For Any
level software engineers and very experienced programmers.
