Learning API Styles
Understanding the Trade-Offs of Common APIs and Choosing the Correct Solutions
Author: Lukasz Dynowski and Marcin Dulak
This hands-on book shows software developers, engineers, and architects how to design and implement APIs for specific use cases—including RESTful APIs, GraphQL APIs, WebSocket APIs, webhook APIs, gRPC APIs, and messaging protocols.
31st August 2025
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This hands-on book shows software developers, engineers, and architects how to design and implement APIs for specific use cases—including RESTful APIs, GraphQL APIs, WebSocket APIs, webhook APIs, gRPC APIs, and messaging protocols.
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When developing a service, whether it's a web service or a microservice, an application programming interface (API) is essential for facilitating data exchange. In this hands-on book, authors Lukasz Dynowski and Marcin Dulak show software developers, engineers, and architects how to design and implement APIs for specific use cases—including RESTful APIs, GraphQL APIs, WebSocket APIs, webhook APIs, gRPC APIs, and messaging protocols.
You'll learn how to determine the appropriate type of API for your application use case and how to tackle design decisions along the way. You'll also learn the trade-offs between various APIs and acquire practical knowledge of how to implement them.
- Explore the origins and evolution of API styles
- Learn the core network protocols that various APIs use
- Determine which encoding to use for your API
- Select an appropriate API style
- Understand the trade-offs of each API style
- Learn how to implement, secure, and document various API styles
- Inspect network packets exchanged between APIs
About the Author
Lukasz Dynowski is Copenhagen based independent consultant with over 10 years of expertise in IT. He has held numerous positions and responsibilities including Full-stack Developer, DevOps Engineer, Software Architect and many others. He specialized in the development of High Performance Computing. Lukasz has a scientific background; he spent several years in academia as a co-author or contributor to several scientific papers, including those published in high impact journals. Apart from that, Lukasz is a firm believer of the open source movement, and the values embodied in the Agile Manifesto. He was able to set up multiple open source projects and contribute to a couple of them, including Kubernetes. Lukasz won and judged O'Reilly's Software Architectural Katas and is ranked in the top 0.1% of developers on stackoverflow.com. Finally, he refers to himself as "the biggest geek that he knows," and he is a devoted spouse and a father to two lovely kids. Marcin Dulak has over 15 years experience in IT. He started by developing quantum modeling algorithms, including porting code to high performance computing architectures. He acquired expertise in implementing and operating on-premise and cloud infrastructure, focusing most recently on web applications. He is an active open source contributor to one of the main Linux distributions. When at home, he enjoys time with his family and cats.
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