Complete with real-world examples, it will guide you to build enterprise-level APIs and services.

A developer's guide to designing, testing, and securing production-ready modern APIs with the help of practical ideas to improve your application's functionality Key FeaturesBuild resilient software for your enterprises and customers by understanding the complete API development life cycleOvercome the challenges of traditional API design by adapting to a new and evolving culture of modern API developmentUse Spring and Spring Boot to develop future-proof scalable APIsBook Description The philosophy of API development has evolved over the years to serve the modern needs of enterprise architecture, and developers need to know how to adapt to these modern API design principles. Apps are now developed with APIs that enable ease of integration for the cloud environment and distributed systems. With this Spring book, you'll discover various kinds of production-ready API implementation using REST APIs and explore async using the reactive paradigm, gRPC, and GraphQL. You'll learn how to design evolving REST-based APIs supported by HATEOAS and ETAGs and develop reactive, async, non-blocking APIs. After that, you'll see how to secure REST APIs using Spring Security and find out how the APIs that you develop are consumed by the app's UI. The book then takes you through the process of testing, deploying, logging, and monitoring your APIs. You'll also explore API development using gRPC and GraphQL and design modern scalable architecture with microservices. The book helps you gain practical knowledge of modern API implementation using a sample e-commerce app. By the end of this Spring book, you'll be able to develop, test, and deploy highly scalable, maintainable, and developer-friendly APIs to help your customers to transform their business. What you will learnUnderstand RESTful API development, its design paradigm, and its best practicesBecome well versed in Spring's core components for implementing RESTful web servicesImplement reactive APIs and explore async API developmentApply Spring Security for authentication using JWT and authorization of requestsDevelop a React-based UI to consume APIsImplement gRPC inter-service communicationDesign GraphQL-based APIs by understanding workflows and toolingGain insights into how you can secure, test, monitor, and deploy your APIsWho this book is for This book is for inexperienced Java programmers, comp science, or coding boot camp graduates who have knowledge of basic programming constructs, data structures, and algorithms in Java but lack the practical web development skills necessary to start working as a developer. Professionals who've recently joined a startup or a company and are tasked with creating real-world web APIs and services will also find this book helpful. This book is also a good resource for Java developers who are looking for a career move into web development to get started with the basics of web service development.

Discover ways to enhance your application's functionality through hands-on learning for designing, testing, securing, deploying, and maintaining production-ready APIs Key Features Learn how to design, develop, test, and deploy modern APIs in Java Explore techniques for optimizing API performance and handling errors Secure your APIs with industry-standard authentication and authorization techniques Get a free PDF eBook with the purchase of the print or Kindle book Book DescriptionSpring is a powerful and widely adopted framework for building scalable and reliable web applications in Java, complemented by Spring Boot, a popular extension to the framework that simplifies the setup and configuration of Spring-based applications. This book is an in-depth guide to harnessing Spring 6 and Spring Boot 3 for web development, offering practical knowledge of building modern robust web APIs and services. The book covers a wide range of topics that are essential for API development, including RESTful web service fundamentals, Spring concepts, and API specifications. It also explores asynchronous API design, security, designing user interfaces, testing APIs, and the deployment of web services. In addition to its comprehensive coverage, this book offers a highly contextual real-world sample app that you can use as a reference for building different types of APIs for real-world applications. This sample app will lead you through the entire API development cycle, encompassing design and specification, implementation, testing, and deployment. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to design, develop, test, and deploy scalable and maintainable modern APIs using Spring 6 and Spring Boot 3, along with best practices for bolstering the security and reliability of your applications and improving your application's overall functionality.What you will learn Create enterprise-level APIs using Spring and Java Understand and implement REST, gRPC, GraphQL, and asynchronous APIs for various purposes Develop real-world web APIs and services, from design to deployment Expand your knowledge of API specifications and implementation best practices Design and implement secure APIs with authorization and authentication Develop microservices-based solutions with workflow and orchestration engines Acquire proficiency in designing and testing user interfaces for APIs Implement logging and tracing mechanisms in your services and APIs Who this book is for This book is for novice Java programmers, computer science graduates, coding boot camp alumni, and newcomers to the realm of creating real-world web APIs and services. It is an invaluable resource for Java developers transitioning to web development, offering an all-encompassing introduction to web service development. If you possess knowledge of fundamental programming constructs, data structures, and algorithms in Java but lack practical web development experience, this book will serve as a bridge to cultivate the essential skills for entry into the role of a web developer.

Build and deploy scalable cloud native microservices using the Spring framework and Kubernetes. KEY FEATURES ● Complete coverage on how to design, build, run, and deploy modern cloud native microservices. ● Includes numerous sample code exercises on microservices, Spring and Kubernetes. ● Develop a stronghold on Kubernetes, Spring, and the microservices architecture. ● Complete guide of application containerization on Kubernetes containers. ● Coverage on managing modern applications and infrastructure using observability tools. DESCRIPTION The main objective of this book is to give an overview of cloud native microservices, their architecture, design patterns, best practices, real use cases and practical coverage of modern applications. This book covers a strong understanding of the fundamentals of microservices, API first approach, Testing, observability, API Gateway, Service Mesh and Kubernetes alternatives of Spring Cloud. This book covers the implementation of various design patterns of developing cloud native microservices using Spring framework docker and Kubernetes libraries. It covers containerization concepts and hands-on lab exercises like how to build, run and manage microservices applications using Kubernetes. After reading this book, the readers will have a holistic understanding of building, running, and managing cloud native microservices applications on Kubernetes containers. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN ● Learn fundamentals of microservice and design patterns. ● Learn microservices development using Spring Boot and Kubernetes. ● Learn to develop reactive, event-driven, and batch microservices. ● Perform end-to-end microservices testing using Cucumber. ● Implement API gateway,authentication & authorization,load balancing, caching, rate limiting. ● Learn observability and monitoring techniques of microservices. WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR This book is for the Spring Developers, Microservice Developers, Cloud Engineers, DevOps Consultants, Technical Architect and Solution Architects, who have some familiarity with application development, Docker and Kubernetes containers. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Overview of Cloud Native microservices 2. Microservice design patterns 3. API first approach 4. Build microservices using the Spring Framework 5. Batch microservices 6. Build reactive and event-driven microservices 7. The API gateway, security, and distributed caching with Redis 8. Microservices testing and API mocking 9. Microservices observability 10. Containers and Kubernetes overview and architecture 11. Run microservices on Kubernetes 12. Service Mesh and Kubernetes alternatives of Spring Cloud

Summary Spring Microservices in Action teaches you how to build microservice-based applications using Java and the Spring platform. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the technology Microservices break up your code into small, distributed, and independent services that require careful forethought and design. Fortunately, Spring Boot and Spring Cloud simplify your microservice applications, just as the Spring Framework simplifies enterprise Java development. Spring Boot removes the boilerplate code involved with writing a REST-based service. Spring Cloud provides a suite of tools for the discovery, routing, and deployment of microservices to the enterprise and the cloud. About the Book Spring Microservices in Action teaches you how to build microservice-based applications using Java and the Spring platform. You'll learn to do microservice design as you build and deploy your first Spring Cloud application. Throughout the book, carefully selected real-life examples expose microservice-based patterns for configuring, routing, scaling, and deploying your services. You'll see how Spring's intuitive tooling can help augment and refactor existing applications with micro services. What's Inside Core microservice design principles Managing configuration with Spring Cloud Config Client-side resiliency with Spring, Hystrix, and Ribbon Intelligent routing using Netflix Zuul Deploying Spring Cloud applications About the Reader This book is written for developers with Java and Spring experience. About the Author John Carnell is a senior cloud engineer with twenty years of experience in Java. Table of contents Welcome to the cloud, Spring Building microservices with Spring Boot Controlling your configuration with Spring Cloud configuration server On service discovery When bad things happen: client resiliency patterns with Spring Cloud and Netflix Hystrix Service routing with Spring Cloud and Zuul Securing your microservices Event-driven architecture with Spring Cloud Stream Distributed tracing with Spring Cloud Sleuth and Zipkin Deploying your microservices

Starting your first project with Spring Boot can be a bit daunting given the vast options that it provides. This book will guide you step-by-step along the way to be a Spring Boot hero in no time. The book covers: * Setup of your project * Security and user management for your application * Writing REST endpoints * Connecting with a database from your application * Unit and integration testing for all aspects * Writing documentation for your REST endpoints * Support file upload from your REST API

A pragmatic guide for Java developers to help build Microservices and Cloud Apps using Spring Boot. KEY FEATURES ● Develops microservices from start to finish using the Spring Boot Framework. ● Creates cloud-native applications using Spring Boot's production-ready features. ● Covers the API gateway, unit testing, cloud deployments, and managing high-traffic applications. DESCRIPTION Spring is an excellent framework for developing both web and cloud-native applications. This book on application development using Spring Boot simplifies the process of writing boilerplate code for complex software. It allows developers to concentrate on the application's concept rather than on the internal Java configuration. This book will guide you on how to make the best use of the strength that Spring Boot provides. You'll gain an understanding of how Spring Boot configuration works in conjunction with application development, including auto-configuration and overriding default configurations. You will learn to develop scalable, dependable microservices to accelerate the development lifecycle of a cloud-based application. Each chapter will walk you through the features of Spring Boot as a Software Development Framework, such as performing Create, Read, Update, and Delete (CRUD) operations on a database and securing web services with appropriate logging. By the end of this book, you will develop, test, and deploy applications ready for production and how to establish them as cloud-based applications. The readers will also gain the expertise of writing unit and integration test cases. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN ● Get to know Spring Boot and all its capabilities. ● Build start-to-end production-ready applications. ● Explore the API Gateway and practice how to run request routing. ● Learn API doc tools like Swagger and host your apps on Cloud. ● Practice how to balance the application's load when the system is under high traffic. ● Learn to write unit tests and integration tests for bug-free coding. WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR This book is for Java developers who want to quickly develop, test, and deploy production-ready applications. This book will also appeal to cloud-native application developers and cloud engineers. No prior Spring Boot knowledge is required as the basics are covered in the book. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Getting Started with Spring Boot 2. Developing Your First Spring Boot Application 3. Spring Boot Starter Dependencies and Auto-Configuration 4. Spring Boot Annotations 5. Working with Spring Data JPA and Caching 6. Building RESTFul Microservices 7. Securing a Web Application 8. Building Resilient System 9. Logging 10. Working with the Swagger API Management Tool 11. Testing a Spring Boot Application 12. Deploying a Spring Boot Application