Restful Web API Patterns and Practices Cookbook (Sixth Early Release)

Author Mike Amundsen provides step-by-step solutions for finding, connecting, and maintaining applications designed and built by people outside the organization. Whether you're working on human-centric mobile apps or creating high-powered machine-to-machine solutions, this guide shows you the rules, routines, commands, and protocols-the glue-that integrates individual microservices so they can function together in a safe, scalable, and reliable way.
Design and build individual microservices that can successfully interact on the open web
Increase interoperability by designing services that share a common understanding
Build client applications that can adapt to evolving services without breaking
Create resilient and reliable microservices that support peer-to-peer interactions on the web
Use web-based service registries to support runtime "find-and-bind" operations that manage external dependencies in real time
Implement stable workflows to accomplish complex, multiservice tasks consistently