REST Fundamentals

Pluralsight

Course Summary

Walks through the definition of the RESTful architectural styles and provides an approach for designing systems.

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Course Description

REST is an overloaded, and thus misunderstood term in architectural circles these days. This course attempts to clear up some of the misunderstandings about REST as well as provide a more practical approach for designing RESTful solutions - both clients and services. Additionally, the course looks at REST from the perspective of the cloud and describes how REST is well-suited to meet the demands that the cloud brings to bear on a modern architecture.

Course Description

REST is an overloaded, and thus misunderstood term in architectural circles these days. This course attempts to clear up some of the misunderstandings about REST as well as provide a more practical approach for designing RESTful solutions - both clients and services. Additionally, the course looks at REST from the perspective of the cloud and describes how REST is well-suited to meet the demands that the cloud brings to bear on a modern architecture.

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Course Syllabus

Introduction
- 23m 22s

—Overview 2m 27s
—The Need for REST 6m 40s
—Architectural Properties 3m 35s
—Defining REST 3m 51s
—REST by Comparison 4m 39s
—Demo: Richardson's Maturity Model 1m 13s
—Summary 0m 57s

Deriving REST: Constraints
- 33m 11s

—Overview 0m 58s
—Getting to REST 8m 11s
—Client-Server 2m 49s
—Stateless 4m 47s
—Cache 3m 15s
—The Uniform Interface 6m 15s
—Layered System 3m 12s
—Code-on-Demand 3m 9s
—Summary 0m 35s

Elements of RESTful Architecture
- 33m 7s

—Overview 0m 59s
—Components and Connectors 4m 55s
—Resources 3m 48s
—Resource Identifiers 3m 16s
—Resource Metadata 1m 34s
—Representations 5m 45s
—Control Data 2m 36s
—Hypermedia 6m 54s
—Types of Hypermedia 2m 43s
—Summary 0m 37s

Designing RESTful Services
- 33m 25s

—Overview 0m 51s
—A New Metaphor 2m 39s
—Real-World REST: Bug Tracking 5m 3s
—Designing the Bug Tracking Service 3m 39s
—Bug Resources 3m 32s
—Bug Representation 10m 28s
—API 0m 33s
—Dynamically Modifying the Workflow 5m 41s
—Summary 0m 59s

Designing RESTful Clients
- 34m 37s

—Overview 1m 48s
—RESTful Clients Can Be Harder 4m 30s
—Client Design Process 4m 26s
—Example: Bug Tracking Requirement 4m 6s
—Bug Client Code 4m 49s
—Remember the Contract 0m 50s
—Clients and Resources 3m 26s
—Clients and Representations 3m 45s
—Clients and Self-Describing Messages 1m 45s
—Clients and Hypermedia 4m 28s
—Summary 0m 44s

REST and the Cloud
- 21m 21s

—Overview 1m 51s
—The Goal of Moving to the Cloud 2m 9s
—Characteristics of a Good Cloud Architecture 1m 19s
—Scalability 2m 55s
—Operational Efficiency 1m 46s
—Resiliency 1m 29s
—Realize Economies of Scale 1m 21s
—REST as a Means to Scalable Architecture 1m 55s
—Cloud Architectural Strategies 2m 38s
—Cloud Opportunities 2m 20s
—Summary 1m 38s