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GraphQL for All? A Few Things to Think about before Blindly Dumping REST for GraphQL
Arnaud Lauret discusses REST vs. GraphQL, comparing their strengths and weaknesses, suggesting evaluating both before making a decision.
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gRPC: A High Performance, Modern RPC System
David Howden introduces gRPC and outlines its main strengths/weaknesses, and then recounts his experience of migrating from JSON/HTTP-based REST to gRPC, including benefits and issues encountered.
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Building a Hypermedia API in a Few Minutes with the API Platform Framework
Kevin Dunglas introduces the API Platform and shows how to build an API with it.
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Streaming APIs
Audrey Neveu discusses why and how to transform a REST API into a Data Streaming API.
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Rebuilding the Monolith with Composable Apps
Ian Thomas discusses breaking down monoliths into composable parts and understanding value from the point of the customer, showing examples of functional programming styles for building front-end apps
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Designing Pragmatic RESTful APIs
Anupama Natarajan presents key principles to consider when designing RESTful APIs based on her experience designing them for real-world applications.
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Distributed Workflows with Hypermedia Clients
Glenn Block introduces Hypergoal, a way of creating distributed workflows with hypermedia clients.
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Hypermedia Myths and Misconceptions
Glenn Block discusses the truth and myth beyond some beliefs: the web was built for hypermedia, there is no REST without hypermedia, hypermedia is the magic cure for all API ills, etc.
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I Can't Believe It's Not a Queue: Using Kafka with Spring
Joe Kutner talks about Kafka and where it fits in a Spring app and how to make it do things message queues simply can't.
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Writing Comprehensive and Guaranteed Up-to-Date REST API Documentation
Andreas Evers introduces Spring REST Docs and its test-driven approach to RESTful API documentation.
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Orchestrate All the Things! with Spring Cloud Data Flow
Eric Bottard and Ilayaperumal Gopinathan discuss easy composition of microservices with Spring Cloud Data Flow.
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Advanced Spring Data REST
Covering the features added to Spring Data REST in recent releases, Oliver Gierke looks at how to integrate manually coded REST resources, tweak representations and work with lookup types.