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API Showdown: REST vs. GraphQL vs. gRPC – Which Should You Use?
Alex Borysov, Matt McLarty and Michelle Garrett discuss REST, GraphQL, and gRPC, what it takes to get started, and when each is the right/wrong tool for the job.
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Declarative APIs in an Imperative World
Tilde Thurium explains problems the Atom Editor team came across when they started using React as their UI framework, as well as the solutions they came up with.
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Testing the Endpoints of Your REST APIs
Tonya Cooper discusses how to test REST API endpoints through unit testing the controllers and integration testing with Postman.
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Goodbye REST APIs. Hello GraphQL!
Cory House discusses GraphQL, what makes it attractive, how GraphQL integrates with React, Angular, Vue and others, and how to migrate from REST APIs.
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Documenting RESTful APIs with Spring REST Docs
Jenn Strater introduces Spring REST Docs and its test-driven approach to RESTful API documentation.
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Practical Eff Monad for Microservices
Eric Torreborre presents using the Eff monad at Zalando to structure a REST microservice, introducing an approach for dependency injection using the Reader monad (classic) and tree rewriting.
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Spring Tools 4 - Eclipse and Beyond
Martin Lippert and Kris De Volder introduce and demo a new generation of Spring tools including Spring Tool Suite for Eclipse (STS4), STS4 VS Code and STS4 Atom.
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GitHub's GraphQL Future
Kyle Daigle shares why GitHub chose GraphQL, how it differs from REST, how GitHub went about implementing it, and how they're using it in production a year later.
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Beyond REST: Coursera's Journey to GraphQL
Bryan Kane talks about why Coursera is transitioning to GraphQL and shares challenges and learnings from building their GraphQL assembly layer.
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Rethinking CodeGen: IDL, Thrift, gRPC, Ohh My
Cameron Waeland discusses the evolution of Compass and presents their extensible code generation framework which is at the heart of their automatically generated REST to gRPC reverse proxy.
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API Design and the Future of API Descriptions Formats
Zdenek Nemec discusses the birth, evolution, and the current and the foreseeable future of web APIs.
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Building out Hypermedia Clients
Todd Brackley outlines the general engine of a hypermedia client implementation, what API forms look like, and then outlines five design issues useful in creating such clients.
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