This package includes SAMS Teach Yourself Visual Basic 6 in 21 Days, SAMS Teach Yourself More Visual Basic 6 in 21 Days and SAMS Teach Yourself Database Programming with Visual Basic 6 in 21 Days. The bonus CD-ROM includes a special version of VB Advantage for Visual Basic 6.

Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic 6 Megabundle (Teach Yourself...in 21 Days Series)

Computers & Technology

Perry, Greg M.

Amundsen, Mike

SMITH, CURTIS

Mauer, Lowell

Programming

Sams.

Product Description \nA lot of work is required to release an API, but the effort doesn't always pay off. Overplanning before an API matures is a wasted investment, while underplanning can lead to disaster. The second edition of this book provides maturity models for individual APIs and multi-API landscapes to help you invest the right human and company resources for the right maturity level at the right time. 
How do you balance the desire for agility and speed with the need for robust and scalable operations? Four experts show software architects, program directors, and product owners how to maximize the value of their APIs by managing them as products through a continuous lifecycle.\nLearn which API decisions you need to govern 
Design, deploy, and manage APIs using an API-as-a-product (AaaP) approach 
Examine 10 pillars that form the foundation of API product work 
Learn how the continuous improvement model governs changes throughout an API's lifetime 
Explore the five stages of a complete API product lifecycle 
Delve into team roles needed to design, build, and maintain your APIs 
Learn how to manage APIs published by your organization\nAbout the Author 
Mehdi Medjaoui is the co-founder of Webshell SAS (OAuth.io, GetMateria.com) and the co-founder of the APIdays.io conferences series (2017 program : Sydney, Barcelona, San Francisco, London, Auckland, Paris). He is also the co-author of the API Industry Landscape, The State of API Documentation 2017, and The State of Banking APIs 2017, as well as an author at Readwrite. He's a manager of the API Accelerator program at ReadwriteLabs (Launch February 2018) and the organizer for the Paris API meetup, APICraftSF meetup and local Hackathons.\nErik WIlde has been working in computer networking for a long time, starting with a Ph.D. in computer networking from ETH Zürich. He published the worldwide first book about the technical foundations of the Web during his post-doc year at ICSI, and then his interest switched to Web technologies and Web architecture -- fields he has been working in since 1997.\nRonnie Mitra is a Member of the API Academy. Recognized thought-leader in the API community, especially around API design and HCI (Human-Computer Interaction). Co-authored O’Reilly’s Microservices: Up and Running book.\nAn internationally known author and speaker, Mike Amundsen travels the world consulting and talking about network architecture, Web development, and other subjects. As Director of Architecture for the API Academy, he works with companies to provide insight on how best to capitalize on the opportunities APIs present to both consumers and the enterprise.

Continuous API Management: Making the Right Decisions in an Evolving Landscape

Medjaoui, Mehdi

Wilde, Erik

Mitra, Ronnie

Computer Science

O'Reilly Media

Many organizations today orchestrate and maintain apps that rely on other people's services. Software designers, developers, and architects in those companies often work to coordinate and maintain apps based on existing microservices, including third-party services that run outside their ecosystem. This cookbook provides proven recipes to help you get those many disparate parts to work together in your network. Author Mike Amundsen provides step-by-step solutions for finding, connecting, and maintaining applications designed and built by people outside the organization. Whether you're working on human-centric mobile apps or creating high-powered machine-to-machine solutions, this guide shows you the rules, routines, commands, and protocols--the glue--that integrates individual microservices so they can function together in a safe, scalable, and reliable way. <ul> <li>Design and build individual microservices that can successfully interact on the open web</li> <li>Increase interoperability by designing services that share a common understanding</li> <li>Build client applications that can adapt to evolving services without breaking</li> <li>Create resilient and reliable microservices that support peer-to-peer interactions on the web</li> <li>Use web-based service registries to support runtime "find-and-bind" operations that manage external dependencies in real time</li> <li>Implement stable workflows to accomplish complex, multiservice tasks consistently</li> </ul>

RESTful Web API Patterns and Practices Cookbook: Connecting and Orchestrating Microservices and Distributed Data

With this concise book, you'll learn the art of building hypermedia Apis that don't simply run on the Web, but that actually exist in the Web. You'll start with the general principles and technologies behind this architectural approach, and then dive hands-on into three fully-functional Api examples. Too many Apis rely on concepts rooted in desktop and local area network patterns that don't scale well-costly solutions that are difficult to maintain over time. This book shows system architects and web developers how to design and implement human- and machine-readable web services that remain stable and flexible as they scale. Learn the H-Factors for representing application metadata across all media types and formats Understand the four basic design elements for authoring hypermedia types Convert a simple read-only Xml-based media type into a successful Api design Examine the challenges and advantages of designing a hypermedia type with Json Use Html5's rich set of hypermedia controls in the Api design process Learn the details of documenting, publishing, and registering media type designs and link-relation types

Building Hypermedia APIs with HTML5 and Node: Creating Evolvable Hypermedia Applications

Web Development & Design

The popularity of REST in recent years has led to tremendous growth in almost-RESTful APIs that don’t include many of the architecture’s benefits. With this practical guide, you’ll learn what it takes to design usable REST APIs that evolve over time. By focusing on solutions that cross a variety of domains, this book shows you how to create powerful and secure applications, using the tools designed for the world’s most successful distributed computing system: the World Wide Web.
You’ll explore the concepts behind REST, learn different strategies for creating hypermedia-based APIs, and then put everything together with a step-by-step guide to designing a RESTful Web API.
<ul>
<li>Examine API design strategies, including the collection pattern and pure hypermedia</li>
<li>Understand how hypermedia ties representations together into a coherent API</li>
<li>Discover how XMDP and ALPS profile formats can help you meet the Web API "semantic challenge"</li>
<li>Learn close to two-dozen standardized hypermedia data formats</li>
<li>Apply best practices for using HTTP in API implementations</li>
<li>Create Web APIs with the JSON-LD standard and other the Linked Data approaches</li>
<li>Understand the CoAP protocol for using REST in embedded systems</li>
</ul>

RESTful Web APIs: Services for a Changing World

Richardson, Leonard

Ruby, Sam

Powerful web-based REST and hypermedia-style APIs are becoming more common every day, but instead of applying the same techniques and patterns to hypermedia clients, many developers rely on custom client code. With this practical guide, you’ll learn how to move from one-off implementations to general-purpose client apps that are stable, flexible, and reusable.
Author Mike Amundsen provides extensive background, easy-to-follow examples, illustrative dialogues, and clear recommendations for building effective hypermedia-based client applications. Along the way, you’ll learn how to harness many of the basic principles that underpin the Web.
<ul>
<li>Convert HTML-only web apps into a JSON API service</li>
<li>Overcome the challenges of maintaining plain JSON-style client apps</li>
<li>Decouple the output format from the internal object model with the representor pattern</li>
<li>Explore client apps built with HAL—Hypertext Application Language</li>
<li>Tackle reusable clients with the Request, Parse, Wait Loop (RPW) pattern</li>
<li>Learn the pros and cons of building client apps with the Siren content type</li>
<li>Deal with API versioning by adopting a change-over-time aesthetic</li>
<li>Compare how JSON, HAL, Siren, and Collection+JSON clients handle the Objects/Addresses/Actions Challenge</li>
<li>Craft a single client application that can consume multiple services</li>
</ul>

RESTful Web Clients: Enabling Reuse Through Hypermedia

Microservices can have a positive impact on your enterprise—just ask Amazon and Netflix—but you can fall into many traps if you don’t approach them in the right way. This practical guide covers the entire microservices landscape, including the principles, technologies, and methodologies of this unique, modular style of system building. You’ll learn about the experiences of organizations around the globe that have successfully adopted microservices.
In three parts, this book explains how these services work and what it means to build an application the Microservices Way. You’ll explore a design-based approach to microservice architecture with guidance for implementing various elements. And you’ll get a set of recipes and practices for meeting practical, organizational, and cultural challenges to microservice adoption.
<ul>
<li>Learn how microservices can help you drive business objectives</li>
<li>Examine the principles, practices, and culture that define microservice architectures</li>
<li>Explore a model for creating complex systems and a design process for building a microservice architecture</li>
<li>Learn the fundamental design concepts for individual microservices</li>
<li>Delve into the operational elements of a microservices architecture, including containers and service discovery</li>
<li>Discover how to handle the challenges of introducing microservice architecture in your organization</li>
</ul>

Microservice Architecture: Aligning Principles, Practices, and Culture

Nadareishvili, Irakli

McLarty, Matt

A lot of work is required to release an API, but the effort doesn’t always pay off. Overplanning before an API matures is a wasted investment, while underplanning can lead to disaster. This practical guide provides maturity models for individual APIs and multi-API landscapes to help you invest the right human and company resources for the right maturity level at the right time.
How do you balance the desire for agility and speed with the need for robust and scalable operations? Four experts from the API Academy show software architects, program directors, and product owners how to maximize the value of their APIs by managing them as products through a continuous life cycle.
<ul>
<li>Learn which API decisions you need to govern and how and where to do so</li>
<li>Design, deploy, and manage APIs using an API-as-a-product (AaaP) approach</li>
<li>Examine ten pillars that form the foundation of API product work</li>
<li>Learn how the continuous improvement model governs changes throughout an API’s lifetime</li>
<li>Explore the five stages of a complete API product life cycle</li>
<li>Delve into team roles needed to design, build, and maintain your APIs</li>
<li>Learn how to manage your API landscape—the set of APIs published by your organization</li>
</ul>

<div> APIs are transforming the business world at an increasing pace. Gain the essential skills needed to quickly design, build, and deploy quality web APIs that are robust, reliable, and resilient. Go from initial design through prototyping and implementation to deployment of mission-critical APIs for your organization. Test, secure, and deploy your API with confidence and avoid the "release into production" panic. Tackle just about any API challenge with more than a dozen open-source utilities and common programming patterns you can apply right away. Good API design means starting with the API-First principle - understanding who is using the API and what they want to do with it - and applying basic design skills to match customers' needs while solving business-critical problems. Use the Sketch-Design-Build method to create reliable and scalable web APIs quickly and easily without a lot of risk to the day-to-day business operations. Create clear sequence diagrams, accurate specifications, and machine-readable API descriptions all reviewed, tested, and ready to turn into fully-functional NodeJS code. Create reliable test collections with Postman and implement proper identity and access control security with AuthO-without added cost or risk to the company. Deploy all of this to Heroku using a continuous delivery approach that pushes secure, well-tested code to your public servers ready for use by both internal and external developers. From design to code to test to deployment, unlock hidden business value and release stable and scalable web APIs that meet customer needs and solve important business problems in a consistent and reliable manner. </div>

Design and Build Great Web APIs: Robust, Reliable, and Resilient

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Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic 6 Megabundle (Teach Yourself...in 21 Days Series)

Continuous API Management: Making the Right Decisions in an Evolving Landscape

RESTful Web API Patterns and Practices Cookbook: Connecting and Orchestrating Microservices and Distributed Data

Building Hypermedia APIs with HTML5 and Node: Creating Evolvable Hypermedia Applications

RESTful Web APIs: Services for a Changing World

RESTful Web Clients: Enabling Reuse Through Hypermedia

Microservice Architecture: Aligning Principles, Practices, and Culture

Continuous API Management: Making the Right Decisions in an Evolving Landscape

Design and Build Great Web APIs: Robust, Reliable, and Resilient