Designing API-First Enterprise Architectures on Azure: A guide for architects and developers to expedite digital transformation with API-led architectures
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Innovate at scale through well-architected API-led products that drive personalized, predictive, and adaptive customer experiences
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Key Features:
Strategize 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 APIs
Book Description:
API-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 Learn:
Explore 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 architectures
Who this book is for:
This 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.
Publisher : Packt Publishing (August 24, 2021)
Language : English
Paperback : 290 pages
ISBN-10 : 1801813914
ISBN-13 : 978-1801813914
Item Weight : 1.12 pounds
Dimensions : 9.25 x 7.5 x 0.61 inches
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Ravi Mathi –
Brings together a lot of knowledge-base on API-Led Enterprise Architectures
Modern application development and modernization of legacy applications all entail development of many APIs that expose their functionality so they are easily consumable internally and in many instances externally. Monetization of data is best done through APIs. Microservices architecture replete with APIs must not be the default go-to architecture, it is indeed the preferred approach when there is large scale, rapid change or complexity that cannot be delivered as a monolith. Distributed applications take more time and effort to develop and maintain, they must be used to solve the right problem.This book is timely and brings together all the different considerations of an API-led enterprise architecture. In particular if Azure is your deployment platform, the content is especially useful as the concepts and sample application are based on Azure. It has good coverage of basics. It has some coverage of advanced topics such as event-driven approach and CQRS pattern.Youâd find content related to- Description of different types of APIs including the most used â RESTful APIs- Azure DevOps use for planning and tracking of an API-led enterprise program- DR, HA & SLA / SLO considerations- Different Azure services that may have a role in an API-Led enterprise architecture- Other Azure integration tech stack- Different patterns of API implementation- Securing, monitoring and logging APIs- API monetization â useful if you are taking a product view of your API ecosystemSome of the diagrams and charts have tiny font, but there is a free download of a PDF that has all the diagrams for reference that really helps if you like color and being able to zoom in. Other than a few typos, it is a well-produced book.
Mohit –
Just the book I was looking for 🙂
A great reference for anyone working on APIs on Azure. All my projects on the Microsoft cloud, inevitably have some APIs built on Azure. Whether it is for a full fleged Azure Application or extending a PaaS/SaaS service. Projects end up spinning their own APIs, these APIs tend to cluster around business functions, application integrations and platform extensibilities. Over a period of time the enterprise has a large collection of APIs spread over a broad spectrum of implementation recipes.I was trying to address such a problem for one of my customers when I came across a Linkedin post for Designing API-First Enterprise Architectures on Azure. Fortunately I had a connection with the author as we were colleagues at Microsoft in another life. I was lucky to get a reviewers copy of the book.I initially dove into Chapter 8 on API centric integrations, which was my immediate focus of interest. The chapter helped us kick start the engagement by providing insights into the domain problems , solutions and patterns, as well as guide us on areas that were in our blind spot.I then read the book cover to cover.I found Subhajit’s writing style very helpful, it is a vast topic and one might get lost in the sea on information. Subhajit deserves credit for simplifying the concepts and making them easy to grasp without loosing the important details. I could understand and appreciate the thought process that goes into designing such solutions.The historical context provided on the evolution of tool, technologies and patterns helps ground the information in familiar territory and also helps in transitioning legacy solutions to align more closely with a modern cloud API based solution.Chapter on Quality can be book in its own right.Chapter on Monetisation of API was very helpful, we are considering incoporating some of the ideas mentioned for inter-company monetization of API to reward projects that expose reusable APIs.I really enjoyed reading the book.As parting feedback I would encourage Subhajit and Packt to start a podcast or a news letter to create a community around the book so that we can all benefit from Subhajit’s knowledge and keep uptodate with new developments in this space.
H. Allsworth –
A good guide for getting started in designing APIs and understanding the roadmap to get there.
For full disclosure, I was provided a free PDF copy, with the request to provide a public review; by Deepak Kumar who is a Marketing Coordinator for Packt PublishingI would rate this book to be no more than a 4 out of 5. The book is a great introduction to the topic of API Design and as an Azure Architect with a traditional infrastructure mindset, I learned quite a bit from reading it however I feel it falls short on the promise of teaching enterprise design and how to leverage the wide landscape of Azure offerings. I would recommend this book to teams new to developing APIs, IT managers and leadership to understand the value statement that an API offers, and as a general framework for how to transform an organization towards an API centric approach.I liked the effort by the author to highlight the various components at each stage of the process that need to be considered, what they are to some degree and some touchpoints on suitable technologies, frameworks, disciplines, and standards that would help deliver the goals outlined in each section. I felt that many of the topics that are primary and secondary have been touched upon and there are good resources reference throughout each section and chapter.Where I find this book falls short of the promise the title makes is in the ability to take the listener from concept to an actual designed and deployable API. The book provides many touchpoints on topics however it does not deliver the depth necessary to complete a design using the components it covers. Additionally, the case study would have been an excellent vehicle for taking a concept and demonstrating it as a component of the design, an opportunity that I feel was missed here.For the second edition of this book, I would recommend greater emphasis on concept to design as well as topics such as security, DevOps, pipelines & CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, API lifetimes and what would constrain them, as well as integration of APIs into an Enterprise operational structure. There are a few mentions around security, however with the current atmosphere of data breaches, hacking by nation states, the need for greater and greater telemetry, identification and response, these items should be given significantly more discussion. Prepare the reader for the what the current bar has been raised, prepare them for their security and operations reviews and sell them on the value, usability, and integration of security tools in the development, testing, deployment, and operational stages.Overall, I would recommend this book as a guide to getting started in API design and feel it touches many of the primary concepts needed. Considering the vast number of topics that must be covered in this space, it would be impossible to cover all and to go in-depth at the same time, so I applaud Subhajit for his work and look forward to reading more of his work.I have some comments for the publisher as well. I have read several Packt books in the past couple years and this book also has some of the same items I would like to mention. I appreciate the space you are trying to address in the technical book market and would ask that greater attention to be given to the editing of these books as many times there are numerous and sometimes obvious spelling errors, broken URLs, poorly done or lazy graphics, black and white images, and other artifacts that lesson the sense of quality of the books. I would assume that many of these books are being consumed electronically and therefore items like graphics should be color, well done using attractive and clean formatting and ideally have been created with high-resolution or SVG images so that they clean and clear whether small or large. For instance, this book only has black and white images, and the color images are available as a separate download, really�
Brad Isaacs –
Excellent read, loads of great information to guide you through learning API First Architecture.
Shaumitra Ghosh –
The book talks about evolution of Integration Architecture (SOA,microservices, API led, iPaaS ..), API design practices, APIs as digital asset/monetized product, DevOps in the API Lifecyle for scalability and agility. Though book has reference implementation case studies on Azure for illustration purpose, the design principles are applicable for any cloud/integration platform. I highly recommend this book to Integration/Solutions Architects.