Restful web API patterns and practices cookbook : connecting and orchestrating microservices and distributed data Many organizations today orchestrate and maintain apps that rely on other peoples 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 youre 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. Design and build individual microservices that can successfully interact on the open web Increase interoperability by designing services that share a common understanding Build client applications that can adapt to evolving services without breaking Create resilient and reliable microservices that support peer to peer interactions on the web Use web based service registries to support runtime find and bind operations that manage external dependencies in real time Implement stable workflows to accomplish complex multiservice tasks consistently