Software Architecture: REST API Design - The Complete Guide

Become a better Software Architect by designing professional, easy to use and attractive REST API

4.44 (3584 reviews)
Udemy
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English
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Web Development
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Memi Lavi
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Software Architecture: REST API Design - The Complete Guide
22,836
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4 hours
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Mar 2024
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$89.99
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What you will learn

Best Practices of professional REST API

Correct use of HTTP Verbs, URL structure and response codes

Using world-leading documentation engine to document your REST API

Integrating Authentication & Authorization capabilities into REST API

Performance techniques to speed up the response from the REST API

Using Postman to test your REST API

Why take this course?

Every Software Architect is going to design REST API these days.

REST API is the de-facto standard of the Web API world, and all the major websites are having it - Twitter, Amazon, Facebook, Google and lots and lots more.

If you're designing a web app - the developers using it will expect it to have a REST API.

But, how can you make your REST API stand out? How can you convince the API users to actually use the API, and not just take a quick look at it and go away?

In today's world, where everyone expose REST API, it's not easy to attract developers. And if no developer will come - usage and monetization will be a problem.

The key to make your API stand out is to design a well thought-of API, one that is:

1. Easy to use

2. Easy to understand

3. Consistent

4. Performant

5. Just Works


A good Software Architect must be able to design such an API. In fact, designing the API is one of the most important tasks of the Software Architect.

In this comprehensive course, you'll get all the knowledge required for designing great, professional, REST API, using the techniques used by all industry-leading APIs.

Here are some of the topics discussed in this course:

- What is API, and what is Web API

- The inner structure of REST Request and Response

- Tools that can help you simulate REST API calls, such as Postman and Beeceptor

- The special role of HTTP Verbs

- How a REST API URL should look like

- What are Response Codes and why do they matter

- How to give your API a professional looking documentation

- How to add authentication and authorization to your API

- Performance techniques to improve your API responsiveness

- Monitoring  and its importance

- And lots more...


But that's not all...

At the end of this course, you'll be able to download the REST API Checklist, a comprehensive checklist that will guide you through the process of creating the most professional and attractive REST API. This checklist is your go-to-guide whenever you'll design REST API, and as a Software Architect - you'll design a lot of REST API...


This course takes you from the absolute basics of API to the most advanced topics, known only to few. Completing this course will give you all the knowledge required for building professional REST API, and, as a bonus, will put you in a great position when looking for your next job.

No other course covers this topic in such a comprehensive and thorough way. I've put all my 20+ years of experience with hundreds of clients in this course, and I'm sure you will greatly benefit of it.


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What do my students have to say about my courses?

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"well done - The course was very practical" - Sam

"Good explanation on the topics covered, "Soft Skills" section is a great addition of topics" - Sergio

"[The course] given me the confidence to go out to the market and advertise myself as such [an Architect]" - Mathew

"Life Changing" - Arivazhagan

And lots more...


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Who is this course for?

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Any person who is involved in web development, even system analyst, can profit from this course.

That includes:

- Junior developers

- Senior developers

- Architects

- Anyone else involved in web development

If you're not sure if this course is for you - drop me a note!


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What are the prerequisites for this course?

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In this course we'll use tools simulating REST API server and client (Beeceptor and Postman), so no actual coding is required.

Students are expected, however, to be able to understand simple coding snippet (there are a few), and to know how the internet is working (HTTP protocol, Request / Response model, and so on).

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About Me

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I've been in the software industry for more than 20 years, and a Software Architect for more than 17 years, working with a variety of clients - Fortune 100 enterprises, start-ups, govt. entities, defense, telco, banking, and lots more.

I'm an avid speaker and trainer, having trained thousands of students in various courses.

I love what I do, and my greatest passion (well, besides my family...) is designing modern, practical, and reliable systems for my clients, using the best possible API.

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Reviews

Francisco
November 12, 2023
Extraordinary content! It was really what I usually expect from a good course. Up until now, I managed to get most (if not all) of the main concepts and good practices in one go. Of course, to actually understand and apply these concepts correctly, one will need actual designing and testing in a more tangible and real use case and/or scenario. Still, for the purposes and scope of this course (considering the length of the material presented here), the lectures are more than great!
Elisabeth
October 31, 2023
A truly excellent course. I took it because I blew an interview because my knowledge was only hand waving deep. At this point I feel like I know what the issues are, and have a good idea of the topic. It won't help for that interview, but certainly will for the future. Great course.
Theodoros
October 31, 2023
Great course that covers all the necessary topics for getting a nice idea of what things a REST API includes. Great for beginners, but also good for revising or learning the standards of API design
Leen
August 19, 2023
This is a general overview. You won't learn anything new if you've already worked with on a Rest service.
Stefka
August 17, 2023
very comrehensive, and user-friendly explanatations that could be easily understood by non-devleopers like me. Thank a lot!
Emma
July 25, 2023
This course does exactly what it promises, a clear and complete explanation of the REST API architecture. If you want to better understand REST APIs from an architectural point of view, this is a very good course.
Matheus
July 5, 2023
It's not a course on how to design a Rest API. It's a course about Rest API fundamentals and related things. Anyway, it's still a good course for those who don't know anything about Rest APIs.
Niluk
July 1, 2023
This course is quite heavy on the theory, but yet, is still a very good introduction to ReST API design concepts. The author does a very good job of providing a great breadth-first intro to the associated topics, that, I believe, will be of great benefit to those new to ReST! The URL Structure and OAuth2.0 sections were especially very informative, plus, the author provides several useful nuggets of supplementary information such as the Response Codes cheat sheet and the ReST API Checklist that will serve as valuable aids on the job! The integration of some real-world practical ReST API scenarios/usecases into the course would've been great.
Anupam
May 28, 2023
Precise Videos for very clear understanding. Good to start with, if you have no prior knowledge of REST API.
Anonymized
May 22, 2023
A lot of details in this course are presented as objective fact when in reality there is no set rule or standard for it. The quizzes as a result often have multiple correct answers to choose from. I think the course would be better if it were acknowledged what's actually standard or required vs what's most common.
Ankitesh
April 27, 2023
It has been good so far, telling more about the basic of APIs and how a good API should look like. It is good!
JOYDEEP
April 19, 2023
The topic was explained very well and it was easy to understand. I knew only a little bit about the topic before the course. After the course completion, I am well conversant about this topic.
Robert
April 12, 2023
Very good explanations, with focus on practically important questions and summary as a "cheat sheet" to keep the most important information ready at hand.
Eduardo
March 27, 2023
Muy útil , el curso permite abordar los conceptos de APIs de forma sintetizada y con ejemplos que dan mayor claridad sobre los temas
Donald
March 10, 2023
This was a good course on REST API and Memi is an excellent instructor. I can definitely use this course at work.. thanks again..

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