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Beyond REST API's - An Overview About Modern API Technologies

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An overview of GraphQL, gRPC, and RSocket as alternatives to REST, comparing their strengths, limitations, maturity, and support in Spring and Spring Boot. The talk includes code examples and a live demo.

Syllabus

Intro
The REST API endpoints for the task resource might look like this
making the server an executor of an arbitrary number of different queries ...
Subscriptions allow to constantly send updates to a client based on their query...
There are many scenarios conceivable to add a GraphQL API to your existing application ...
JSON payloads are not the most efficient way to package the stuff for transportation ...
Consuming a REST API requires either some manual work or a set of tools to get going ...
The server implementation inherits from the generated services base class...
or an asynchronous one, which is useful for unbound server-streaming, for example.
Summary / Takeaways GRPC
Once a connection is established, both ends can become requester and responder
Spring supports annotated handlers to implement responders (Spring Messaging)
A few guiding questions that could make you think about any of the presented alternatives

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