RESTful Web Services Cookbook

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1. niftichAug 2016
   I recommend this physical book: 'RESTful Web Services Cookbook'. It walks you though the rationale behind HTTP APIs and progressively using more and more of HTTP's features to build a sophisticated but elegant API.

   [1] http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596801694.do

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2. colin_jackOct 2015
   1. I think though you'd really want to have some measurements regarding the performance impact of things like over fetching.

   Also remember that having a resource oriented design and working well with HTTP gives you out of the box advantages in terms of caching and validation, and in HTTP/2 you get extra efficiency advantages (e.g. lots of more granular resources can be retrieved over a single connection).

   2. There are patterns for that though, often best approach is to represent that transaction as a resource. Restful Web Services Cookbook covers approaches for these sorts of bulk operations.

   3. Not sure that's an argument against going resource oriented, if you don't find the debate interesting just ignore it.

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3. sigsergvJul 2015
   Not all business/domain logic is document-oriented. You can map any api to “documents” but result will be horrible usually. There is an excellent book — “RESTful Web Services Cookbook” by Subbu Allamaraju, it covers all aspects of practical REST API and trains very useful sense of REST applicability.
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4. cxaMay 2015
   When I read the title of the post, I wrongly assumed it linked to the "RESTful Web Services Cookbook", which is another O'Reilly classic on this topic. The advice I've heard is to read one or the other, depending on which prose style you prefer.

   It's nice to see a CC-licensed effort to create a similar resource. It's unfortunate that the names are so similar.

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5. shillNov 2014
   There can never be enough articles and books supporting API best practices.

   Here are two of my favorite REST resources (pun intended).

   Richardson Maturity Model: steps toward the glory of REST

   http://martinfowler.com/articles/richardsonMaturityModel.htm...

   RESTful Web Services Cookbook: Solutions for Improving Scalability and Simplicity

   http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596801688

   And I am looking forward to widespread adoption of the REST problem standard posted here a few weeks ago.

   http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-appsawg-http-problem-00.tx...

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6. sigsergvNov 2012
   I'd recommend this book http://www.amazon.com/RESTful-Web-Services-Cookbook-Scalabil...

   It's amazing, really. It's not just a recipies list, it explains a lot of very important REST cases, and also when to use or not to use REST.

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