Effective Design of RESTful APIs

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A concrete workflow: identify participants, list their activities, break those into resources (nouns) and map to HTTP verbs, then validate before coding — this prevents missed cases like partial cancel or reorder. Three integration strategies appear: bolt-on, greenfield, facade. Examples include a coffee shop and online book ordering; URLs for cart operations use nested resources (/carts/{id}/items/{id}), and CRUD maps to GET POST PUT DELETE. Validation uses HTTP features: status codes, headers, ETag caching and HATEOAS links.

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1. 0:00Introduction to API design
2. 2:13Modeling fundamentals
3. 7:14API strategy selection
4. 11:12Defining participants and goals
5. 17:08Resource mapping
6. 23:04Designing relationships
7. 28:37Validation and refinement
8. 33:32HTTP protocol concepts
9. 36:39HTTP headers and status
10. 40:03Rest architectural constraints
11. 48:47Uniform interface and HATEOAS

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