PROS:
- Provides rigorous (and somewhat academic) description of RESTful-ness and Resource Oriented Architecture (ROA)
- Wonderful book if you have complex and large data
- This book is great for intended audiences:
-- web app/service architect/designers
-- who have complex / large data
-- who are looking to surface those data via web service and web applications
-- who think good organization is very very important (a little bit of OCD would help :)
CONs:
- Not wonderful book if you do not have complex and large data
- It would be boring or irrelevant for:
-- a reader who doesn't satisfy any of the above criteria
The authors are geniuses and have deep knowledge on the whole web space. They also have firm idea on how web-apps and web-services have to be designed to make the entire web better organized, while (almost succeeding in) not being a religious fanatic on the design principles. Hence their presentation is deep and insightful. It opens up your eyes on simple, yet overarching principles of web (HTTP, URI, ...) and teaches you how considering RESTful-ness would improve your web service / app architecture.
Like some geniuses, there writing style could be sometimes lengthy and pedantic, not compact. But their writing is still crisp and precise. Academic-degree preciseness. That may be why some are put off by this book but I view it as a small price to pay to learn from their wisdom.
I found this book while designing REST API to use for our existing web application. Our web-app is a niche player, but very large and complex system and I was looking to add REST API to make the whole system more "modern". I had some doubt about the book from reading some of negative reviews, but after I completed reading it (on kindle during 8-hour flight), I was sold. The book answered my short term questions, and something much, much bigger and fundamental: RESTful way of looking at web service and applications. It actually convinced me that our web-app could have been designed much better had we known of RESTful / ROA principles and applied them early on. I definitely will remember to re-read this book when our web app/service project comes along.
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Stephen
Too focussed on protocol and not enough on development
Reviewed in Canada on August 21, 2014
