Five Essential Tools for Building REST APIs

By Elton Stoneman
REST APIs are a great way to connect systems together. They are platform-independent and work on simple, well-established standards that are designed to support high performance, massive scale, and secure communication. This course presents a toolset for delivering better REST APIs that give clients what they need, run fast, scale well, and are easy to look after.
Course info
Rating
(354)
Level
Beginner
Updated
Dec 2, 2014
Duration
2h 55m
Table of contents
Collaborative Design
Introducing the Course 2m Choosing Your Tools 1m Collaborative Design 2m Demo 1: API Blueprints in Apiary 1m The Spider Log API 1m Demo 2: First Draft in Apiary 4m Payload Design 1m Demo 3: Second Draft in Apiary 3m The Apiary Blueprint 2m Demo 4: Apiary Stub and Traffic Inspector 2m Apiary Features 1m Demo 5: Spider Log API - V1 1m Alternative Tools - Swagger 1m Demo 6: Swagger 3m Alternative Tools - RAML 1m Demo 7: RAML 3m Module Summary 3m
Testing
Testing REST APIs 2m Demo 1: Postman 3m Demo 2: Postman Collections 3m REST Client Alternatives 3m Demo 3: cURL 3m HTTP Debuggers 1m Demo 4: Burp 3m Demo 5: Burp Security Features 2m HTTP Debugger Alternatives 2m Packet Sniffers 1m Demo 6: Wireshark 5m Module Summary 2m
HTTP
HTTP 2m REST Design Using HTTP 2m HTTP 1.0 Expiration Caching 3m Demo 1: Expires Header 2m HTTP 1.1 Expiration Caching 1m Demo 1: cache-control Header 1m HTTP Validation Caching 3m Demo 3: Etag and last-modified Headers 2m HTTP Caching 2m DNS 4m Demo 4: DNS CNAMEs 3m Advanced DNS 1m Demo 5: DNS With Route53 4m SSL 2m Demo 6: SSL 3m SSL & DNS 2m SSL & DNS & Caching 2m Module Summary 3m
Performance Testing
Performance Testing 1m Demo 1: loader.io 4m Demo 2: Variables With loader.io 4m Baseline Performance Tests 2m Stress and Soak Tests 3m Demo 3: loader.io API 3m Load Test Alternatives 3m Demo 4: blitz.io 3m Quantifying Performance Tests 3m Module Summary 2m
Monitoring
Monitoring 2m Logging Levels 4m API Logging 2m Demo 1: loggly 2m Demo 2: loggly Analytics 3m Logging Alternatives 3m Instrumentation 3m Demo 3: NewRelic 3m Diagnostics 3m Demo 4: Diagnostics Endpoint 3m Module Summary 3m
Summary
Course Summary 1m Design & Build 3m Test & Run 3m API Management 4m Five Essential Tools 2m
Description
Course info
Rating
(354)
Level
Beginner
Updated
Dec 2, 2014
Duration
2h 55m
Description

REST provides the foundations for how your API will run, but it gives you a lot of freedom in how you design and build it. This course covers tools which make it easy to ensure your API implementation is high quality and does what the clients need it to do. We cover the full delivery lifecycle, from tools which support collaborative design, through testing, performance testing, and monitoring the health of your API when it's live.

About the author
Elton Stoneman
About the author

Elton is an independent consultant specializing in systems integration with the Microsoft stack. He is a Microsoft MVP, blogger, and practicing Technical Architect.

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