Modern API Development with Spring and Spring Boot: Design highly scalable and maintainable APIs with REST, gRPC, GraphQL, and the reactive paradigm

• Build resilient software for your enterprises and customers by understanding the complete API development life cycle
• Overcome the challenges of traditional API design by adapting to a new and evolving culture of modern API development
• Use Spring and Spring Boot to develop future-proof scalable APIs

• Understand RESTful API development, its design paradigm, and its best practices
• Become well versed in Spring s core components for implementing RESTful web services
• Implement reactive APIs and explore async API development
• Apply Spring Security for authentication using JWT and authorization of requests
• Develop a React-based UI to consume APIs
• Implement gRPC inter-service communication
• Design GraphQL-based APIs by understanding workflows and tooling
• Gain insights into how you can secure, test, monitor, and deploy your APIs

This book is for inexperienced Java programmers, comp science, or coding boot camp graduates who have knowledge of basic programming constructs, data structures, and algorithms in Java but lack the practical web development skills necessary to start working as a developer. Professionals who've recently joined a startup or a company and are tasked with creating real-world web APIs and services will also find this book helpful. This book is also a good resource for Java developers who are looking for a career move into web development to get started with the basics of web service development.