Summary
This chapter covered two important areas for building strong RESTful APIs: data handling and resilience.
The Data handling section focused on managing large amounts of data efficiently. Key techniques include pagination, which splits data into smaller pages to improve performance, and filtering, which allows clients to request only the data they need. The chapter also explained how to handle file uploads and downloads securely, ensuring that APIs can manage large files without slowing down. Additionally, we introduced HATEOAS, which adds navigational links to API responses, making it easier for clients to interact with the API.
The Resilience section showed us how we can keep APIs stable and reliable under various conditions. Important strategies included setting timeouts to avoid long wait times, using retry mechanisms to handle temporary failures, and implementing rate limiting to prevent abuse and manage traffic. Throttling helps control the flow of requests, while...
