Acknowledgments

First of all, thanks to Chris Dent and Matt Liggett for teaching me about REST APIs lo these 10 years ago. I’d never have gotten inspired to wave this flag if I hadn’t been infected with their enthusiasm. Kin Lane, Steve Willmott, and Mike Admunsen, rock stars of the API industry, have helped me develop and advocate for best practices in the platform world. I’d also like to thank all the developer customers who have inspired me to make APIs more usable and friendly.

My appreciation also goes out to reviewers Heather Tooill, James Higginbotham, Jason Harmon, Manoj Agarwal, Adrian Cockcroft, Robert Walsh, Stephen Byrne, Joel Kotarski, Nickie Buckner, Kumar Unnikrishnan, Lourens Steyn, Karsten Strobaek, Marco Imperatore, Satadru Roy, Andrew Meredith, Aseem Anand, Chad Johnston, and all the MEAP purchasers for helping me to make the book the best it can be. My thanks go out to Michael Coury and my cats, Orange and Blue, for their help and patience while I spent weekends with my face buried in my computer. And a huge debt of gratitude is owed to Michael Aglietti and Corey Scobie and the whole team at Akamai for their support while I created the book.

Thanks also to the Manning team for all their support and guidance throughout the process of writing this, my first book. And of course, huge appreciation goes out to Adrian Cockcroft for his guidance early in my career and for writing my foreword.