Edge Side APIs : Fast and Reliable Hypermedia APIs
summary
Argues that REST hypermedia APIs become fast and reliable by serving small atomic JSON documents that cache well, by pushing updates to edge caches and CDNs, and by running minimal code on edge workers (Cloudflare/Vercel) instead of origin servers. Shows concrete tooling and protocols: Vulcain for link aggregation and preload, Mercure for real‑time pushes, API Platform integrations, caching directives and validation strategies, and explains how splitting big resources and pushing new versions reduces latency and origin load.
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chapters (22)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:47Speaker and platform
- 3:54REST fundamentals
- 7:29REST constraints
- 10:19Uniform interface
- 14:15Web protocols evolution
- 16:05HTTP/2 advantages
- 17:33Head of line blocking
- 19:01Caching strategies
- 23:45Cache control deep dive
- 27:20Distributed caching
- 30:33Edge platforms overview
- 33:30Static generation
- 35:43Edge Side APIs
- 37:55Atomic documents
- 40:25Hypermedia links
- 42:10Modern web and REST
- 43:17Server push updates
- 45:52Vulcain protocol
- 47:38Mercure protocol
- 49:28Demos and tools
- 50:30Closing and Q&A
