Top Books on APIs

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  • Designing Web APIs - Brenda Jin et al. - 2018 - Building APIs that developers love; REST, GraphQL, and design patterns.
  • REST in Practice - Jim Webber et al. - 2010 - Hypermedia and systems architecture with REST.
  • API Design Patterns - JJ Geewax - 2021 - Standard patterns for REST, gRPC, and GraphQL APIs.
  • Automating API Delivery - Ikenna Nwaiwu - 2024 - APIOps: design reviews, deployment automation, OpenAPI, and linting.
  • Building Microservices, 2nd Ed. - Sam Newman - 2021 - API design, integration, and deployment in microservice architectures.