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API more than a payload – Cloud Lunch Learn

10 Thursday Nov 2022

Posted by mp3monster in Books, General, Technology

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API, books, manning, Packt, Presentation

Today I was fortunate enough to present at one of the Cloud Lunch and learn events (you can register for any of the events here and see previous sessions here). One of the questions asked at the end of the session was recommended reading on APIs. So I’ve gathered up some links to books I’d suggest worthwhile reading I’d suggest:

  • Enterprise API Management: Design and deliver valuable business APIs by Luis Weir (Amazon.co.uk)
  • The Design of Web APIs by Arnaud Lauret (direct from Manning) (Amazon.co.uk)
  • Designing APIs with Swagger and OpenAPI by Joshua S. Ponelat and Lukas L. Rosenstock (direct from Manning) (Amazon.co.uk)
  • API Security in Action by Neil Madden (direct from Manning) (Amazon.co.uk)
  • OAuth2 in Action by Justin Richer and Antonio Sanso (direct from Manning) (Amazon.co.uk)

I should also mention an API book I’ve co-authored. While it focuses on an Oracle product, there is a lot of content that is relevant to any API development using an API Gateway (Amazon.co.uk). I’ve not looked at all the books at API-University, but from I have seen the content is worth examining.

The slides for my presentation can be found on slideshare, and here:

API Design – More than just a Payload Definition from Phil Wilkins

The Presentation recording can be found here:

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Popping Up on the Net and more

28 Friday Jun 2019

Posted by mp3monster in APIs & microservices, Books, Dev Meetup, development, General, Oracle, Packt, Technology

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API, blog, books, developer, interview, meetup, Oracle

It’s been a quiet month for this blog, but I’ve been pretty busy with a raft of other activities…

  • a recent article on our sister site – oracle-integration.cloud on  RPA.
  • I also appear in an interview with K21 Academy here.
  • 4186btedcpl._sx403_bo1204203200_Reviewing a new book on Enterprise API Management for Packt which we would very highly recommend if you want to understand the more Enterprise perspectives of adopting APIs, particularly if you’re considering APIs as a potential new revenue stream.
  • UK Oracle User Group committees for TechFest (having been reviewing the paper submissions it looks like it’s going to be an excellent conference in December) and Southern Summit (next week).
  • Just launched a number of sessions for the Oracle London Developer Meetup, with another to be announced soon (Blockchain) and potentially two more before the end of the year (we’re working on the speakers now).

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All Packt Books $5

22 Friday Dec 2017

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$5, API, books, ebook, OIC - ICS, Packt, promotion

You know its Christmas because Packt are running their all ebooks for $5 promotion.  Including those I have co-authord and even the ones we’re working on at present.

Our books …

I hope you enjoy the books.

 

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eBook(lets) from O’Reilly

27 Tuesday Sep 2016

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architecture, Big Data, booklet, books, creative commons, Design, development, ebook, ebooks, free, open books, oreilly, vJUG

I received an email through the virtual Java User Group highlighting the availability of a couple of eBooks around Java published by O’Reilly. The details are below. The books are more booklets (nothing wrong with that). The key difference being that they are shorter and focused on one or two focused subjects (in this case Java 8’s Lambda’s & Streams) which is great because I don’t want a whole Java book again, I just want to get a handle on the key changes and language innovations. It is worth highlighting that these aren’t just ‘free chapters’ which is what you see happen sometimes as the goal of the book is described, doesn’t depend on prior chapters to work the illustrated material and structured with the appropriate cover material contents, index etc so works as a discrete entity.

This approach seems to be coming more common at O’Reilly at least as a marketing device, and we have seen this being done with the Dummies brand where the booklets have then been printed as conference give aways.

Some may argue that this is a reflection of our ever shortening attention span with books. This maybe the case for some, but I suspect it is more about providing some that is more digestible than a ‘free chapter’, but more importantly reflects the recognition that for books that are providing guides (as opposed to reference books – which I’d include patterns books) people don’t want to buy a latest edition of a book where the 1st chapters are exactly the same as the previous edition of the book and that the only significant change is a new section on Lambdas for example.

Any way the latest book details received are:

Introducing Java 8
by Raoul-Gabriel Urma
Offers a practical tutorial to some of the core Java 8 features and gets you programming quickly with Java 8.
Object Oriented vs Functional Programming
by Richard Warburton
Explains the similarities and differences between functional programming and object oriented programming with Java focused examples.

http://insightfullogic.com
@RichardWarburto

The other book(lets) that have drawn my attention to the trend include:

  • Static Site Generators
  • Migrating to Cloud-Native Application Architectures
  • Software Architecture Patterns
  • Little Book of HTML/CSS Coding Guidelines
  • Java the Legend – history of Java
  • Designing Great Web APIs
  • Modern Java Script
  • Hadoop with Python
  • Release Engineering How Google Builds and Delivers Software
  • Functional Programming in Python
  • 20 Python Libraries You Aren’t Using (But Should)
  • Monitoring Distributed Systems
  • Little Book of HTML/CSS Frameworks

In addition to these Book(let)s O’Reilly offer a range of ‘reports’ such as:

  • Mapping Big Data, Evaluating Machine Learning Models, Data Driven  (the full range can be seen at Free Data Reports)
  • Open by Design
  • Design for Voice Interfaces (Siri, Cortana etc)

 

In addition O’Reilly have a page on ‘Open Books’ (here) – covering significant texts O’Reilly have had some involvement in but published under licenses such as Create Commons.

 

  • [18-01-16 Update] New booklet added for Modern Java Script
  • [13-03-16 Update] New booklet Continuous Delivery With Windows and Dot Net
  • [14-03-16 Update] New booklet Modern Java EE Design Patterns
  • [13-08-16 Update] New booklet Release Engineering How Google Builds and Delivers Software and Functional Programming in Python
  • [16-09-16 Update] new booklet
    • 20 Python Libraries You Aren’t Using (But Should)
  • [19-09-16 Update] New Booklet Monitoring Distributed Systems
  • [28-09-16]New Booklet Little Book of HTML/CSS Frameworks

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Packt Java EE with Eclipse 2nd Edition

19 Wednesday Aug 2015

Posted by mp3monster in Book Reviews, Books, Packt

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books, ebook, free, Packt, review

Might be a little early for Packt, but I have completed reviewing the 2nd Edition of Java EE with Eclipse for Packt now.  So the book should be available in the next couple of months.

On the subject of Packt, the Free Learning scheme they are running continues. I’ve seen a couple of books repair since the start of the promotion. But for main part each day is new and different and covers a wide range of things from JQuery and Node, to Hadoop and into Drupal and WordPress. So worth checking back on a daily basis.

All of this means time to do some more Oracle writing.

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My Book Contributions

10 Sunday May 2015

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books, reviewing

I’ve updated the page showing my active contributions to books during their development phase as a reviewer, the list can be seen at Book Contributions.

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New eBook offer from Oracle Press

12 Thursday Mar 2015

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books, database, ebook, Oracle, Oracle Press, Query, tuning

Oracle Press are offering the Quick Start Guide to Oracle Query Tuning for free at the moment – register for the book at http://books.mcgraw-hill.com/ebookdownloads/solarwinds/ 

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Booking Puppet and SOA

21 Thursday Aug 2014

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Archtura, book, books, Packt, Patterns, Puppet, review, SOA, Thomas Erl

So having been a little quiet on the book review side of things, having had a bit of time away with the family Packt have asked me to take a look at their book Mastering Puppet  (Packt site, Amazon); and excitingly I have been talking with people at Architura (the people behind the Thomas ERL SOA books published by Prentice Hall (Amazon)) and the architecture resources such as SOA Patterns with the possibility of contributing to the pre-publication reviewing of a new book in the series in the next month or so – should be interesting.

Talking of pre-publication reviews Applied SOA Patterns on the Oracle Platform which I contributed reviews to is now publisher on the Packt Site and Amazon.

 

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Packt Promotion as they hit 2000 titles

20 Thursday Mar 2014

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books, Packt, promotion, statistics

We’ve just heard that Packt Publishing have reached 2000 titles now.  To celebrate they’re running a promotion until  26th March 2014 with a buy one get one free. The offer is unlimited within the period and the discount will appear when you checkout.  For more go to  Packt here.

Packt2KPromo

This news got me thinking I’ve contributed to the book authoring process for 5 books now – which means I’ve contributed to 0.25% of the Packt books.  Reviewing a book takes on average 4 hours per chapter and most Packt books comes with 10-12 chapters. If it takes 4 times longer to write a chapter (16 hours) that’s 160 hours per book and 32,000 hours of authoring effort in the Packt library, which equates to over 3 1/2 years of non stop writing.

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TOGAF Certification – Passing on the Helpful Tips

10 Monday Mar 2014

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books, certification, exam, study, TOGAF

Having successfully become certified with TOGAF 9. I thought it would be good to share some hints, tips and observations that have helped me along the way.  So as you may know the exam is conducted through multiple choice – but that simple examination approach should not give a false sense of ease – because a lot of the options will sound right (until you understand the exact technical meanings).

  • Training course or not to training course, that is the question? Personally I wouldn’t taken on the exam without the training – the TOGAF full text runs to 1000 pages. The course for me at least gave 1000 foot view, an some insight from practitioners and the 1st set of suggestions on preparing for the exam.
  • One of the key points I picked up is the terminology and language is very important. Understand the key terms and read questions very carefully and a lot of information will standout. As I was told when on the training, it is surprisingly common for the right answer to often be the longest textual answer because it is being semantically accurate.
  • Books – well I’d suggest that the full TOGAF® Version 9.1 manual is a desk reference for whilst practicing TOGAF. To get the exam under your belt read TOGAF® 9 Foundation Study Guide you will need to pretty much need to know this stuff cover to cover. Although the guide is Foundation stage – it will get you a long way and you can add additional knowledge from the TOGAF® Version 9.1 A Pocket Guide
  • From these guides you need to know the ADM itself, including the steps in each phase, what the techniques are for and why you might use them (things like gap analysis etc).
  • The study guide has mock stage 1 exams, and each section also has practice questions – take advantage of them. The questions are stylistically pretty good, although in hindsight perhaps erring of the easier side, and the mock exam questions got progressively harder in my opinion.  But the real exam for me, question 1 was a real curve ball.
  • There are other sources of mock questions (including other books) – I found the mock exams at http://theopenarch.com/ helpful.  After each mock exam, I reviewed the answers that I got wrong to try and understand why they are wrong – which helped me identify any areas of reading I was weak on.
  • Read the questions very carefully, there are sometimes indicators as the right answer in the question. Also watch for things like, not what answer in A-E is right, but which one is wrong.
  • Timing – 60 minutes for 40 questions in part 1 doesn’t sound like very long – particularly given the advise of take your time read the questions very carefully. But actually, you’ll find once you’ve got a handle on a chunk of the study guide you’ll find you can rip through some of the questions very quickly giving you time to think carefully about the questions that aren’t so easy – the exam also has means by which you can go back and review questions if you want.
  • For the harder questions, in part 1 I ended up writing A-E on the paper and crossing off the answers I could eliminate. That made it easier (for me at least) to then focus on dissecting the 1 or 2 possible options left. In part 2, I applied a similar approach – part 2 is more about which phase(s) do I need to use and what are the steps. So I took each possible answer and wrote on paper what phase(s) then answer needed and then went through each answer option teasing out the terminology for the different steps (and the phases they originated from). The option with the most steps from the correct phase, appear to give me the best or second best answers.
  • Part 1 is closed book, but part 2 you are meant to be able to refer to the TOGAF material – for me the link to the TOGAF reference failed.  So best not to bank on having it available.

Aside all of this there are classic exam suggestions – give yourself time to get to the exam location – a calm composed mind is crucial for this.  Try and rush through this and you’re potentially facing a disaster. Make sure you have all the information the test centre requires (id’s etc) – one less stress.  Travel light as you wont be able to take anything into the test room. Finally, try and get into ‘the zone’ and roll with the blows dont let the process of taking the exams stress you.  I thought I’d scrapped through stage 1, and flunked stage 2 – but discovered I came through with reasonably good scores.

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