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Representational state transfer (REST) a simple architectural style based on the priniciples of HTTP for building modern web applications and APIs. This hands-on workshop takes you though everything that you need to know to build great RESTful APIs.

By the end of this course, you’ll have good understanding of RESTful APIs and start judging every API that you encounter.

The workshop uses Python 3 for all the examples and exercises.

Pre-requisites

  • Experience of building web applications
  • Familiarity with Python

Schedule

May 13, 2017 (Saturday) 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Venue

Will be finalized soon Bangalore

Outline

  • Introduction to APIs
    • Introductions to APIs
    • Historical evolution of APIs
    • Exploring modern APIs using simple command-line tools.
  • HTTP and RESTfulness
    • Introduction to fundamental principles of HTTP
    • Introduction to REST
  • Designing APIs
    • Thinking about resources
    • Resource Representation
    • Being Stateless
    • Designing URLs
    • Examples and exercises
  • Implementation
    • Practical tips and tricks in implementing APIs
    • Examples and exercises
  • Authentication and Secutity
    • Introduction to authentication patterns
    • Study of Basic Auth, OAuth, access keys and JWT
    • End-to-end encryption using HTTPS
  • Documenting APIs
    • Discussion of various tools commonly used for documenting RESTful APIs

Trainer

Anand Chitipothu

Anand has been crafting beautiful software since two decades. He has strong product development experience with deep insights in system design, scalability, and developer experience. He has co-authored web.py, a micro web framework in Python, built Open Library at the Internet Archive, created a machine learning platform at Rorodata, trained hundreds of engineers through his deep-dive courses.