RESTful APIs are the subject, Ethan Banks is the student, and Chris Wahl is the teacher in today's Datanaut's podcast. Chris and Ethan explore foundational concepts about RESTful APIs and how they work, examine the anatomy of an API conversation, and discuss why APIs are a key to automation. The post Datanauts 169: Understanding RESTful APIs For Infrastructure Engineers appeared first on Packet Pushers.
If you’re a modern sort of infrastructure engineer, you’re likely interested in APIs.
Structured data, everybody. That’s a big win. RESTful APIs are the most common you’re likely to run into when managing infrastructure, and on today’s show I interview Chris all about RESTful API fundamentals.
Your buzzword bingo list includes automation, abstraction, pagination, idempotent, JSON, YAML, swagger, and versioning. Drink!
We discuss:
* What is a REST and how provides a set of definitions for how APIs can share data
* How APIs work
* How APIs tie into automation
* The anatomy of an API conversation
* Key subjects including authorization, pagination, versioning, and idempotent requests
* Education and training available from Rubrik Build
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Show Links:
Stripe
Swagger – GitHub
Rubrik Build – Rubrik
Roxie at Rubrik: GitHub Repositories for Learning – GitHub
Roxie Workshop Automation (PDF of slides)
Your Hosts:
Ethan Banks
Chris Wahl