About This Course
<div>Every Software Architect is going to design REST API these days. <span style="font-size: 1rem;">REST API is the de-facto standard of the Web API world, and all the major websites are having it - Twitter, Amazon, Facebook, Google and lots and lots more. </span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">If you're designing a web app - the developers using it will expect it to have a REST API.</span></div><div><br></div><div>But, how can you make your REST API stand out? How can you convince the API users to actually use the API, and not just take a quick look at it and go away? <span style="font-size: 1rem;">In today's world, where everyone expose REST API, it's not easy to attract developers. And if no developer will come - usage and monetization will be a problem.</span></div><div><br></div><div>The key to make your API stand out is to design a well thought-of API, one that is:</div><div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">1. Easy to use</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">2. Easy to understand</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">3. Consistent</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">4. Performant</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">5. Just Works</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">A good Software Architect must be able to design such an API. In fact, designing the API is one of the most important tasks of the Software Architect. </span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">In this comprehensive course, you'll get all the knowledge required for designing great, professional, REST API, using the techniques used by all industry-leading APIs.</span></div><div><br></div><div>Here are some of the topics discussed in this course:</div><div><ul><li>What is API, and what is Web API</li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">The inner structure of REST Request and Response</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Tools that can help you simulate REST API calls, such as Postman and Beeceptor</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">The special role of HTTP Verbs</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">How a REST API URL should look like</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">What are Response Codes and why do they matter</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">How to give your API a professional looking documentation</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">How to add authentication and authorization to your API</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Performance techniques to improve your API responsiveness</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Monitoring and its importance</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">And lots more...</span></li></ul></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">But that's not all...</span></div><div><br></div><div>At the end of this course, you'll be able to download the REST API Checklist, a comprehensive checklist that will guide you through the process of creating the most professional and attractive REST API. This checklist is your go-to-guide whenever you'll design REST API, and as a Software Architect - you'll design a lot of REST API...</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">This course takes you from the absolute basics of API to the most advanced topics, known only to few. Completing this course will give you all the knowledge required for building professional REST API, and, as a bonus, will put you in a great position when looking for your next job.</span></div><div><br></div><div>No other course covers this topic in such a comprehensive and thorough way. I've put all my 20+ years of experience with hundreds of clients in this course, and I'm sure you will greatly benefit of it.</div>
What you'll learn:
- Best Practices of professional REST API
- Correct use of HTTP Verbs, URL structure and response codes
- Using world-leading documentation engine to document your REST API
- Integrating Authentication & Authorization capabilities into REST API
- Performance techniques to speed up the response from the REST API
- Using Postman to test your REST API