acknowledgments

Two years. It took me two years to finish this book. That’s a very long time, but that is what helped me to make it a great book that I hope you will like. I was not alone while working on it. There are a few people I’d like to thank for helping me during this journey, and I also want to thank the people who made this journey possible.

First and foremost, I want to thank my wife, Cinzia, and my daughter, Elisabetta. Thank you so much for your support and your patience while I was spending my evenings and weekends on “the book.” I love you so much.

Next, I would like to thank everyone at Manning Publications. You can’t imagine how many people work on a book when you haven’t written one yet, and every one of one them has done a wonderful job. I would like to especially thank my editor, Mike Stephens, who believed in the book. Very special thanks also to my two development editors, Kevin Harreld and Jennifer Stout, and my technical development editor, Michael Lund. You really helped me a lot! This book wouldn’t have been the same without the three of you. And very special merci beaucoup to my ESL copyeditor, Rachel Head, who really, really, really has done an awesome job fixing my frenglish. Thank you to my production editor Deirdre Hiam, my copyeditor Frances Buran, proofreader Melody Dolab, and technical proofreader Paul Grebenc. I would also like to thank all the reviewers: Andrew Gwozdziewycz, Andy Kirsch, Bridger Howell, Edwin Kwok, Enrico Mazzarella, Mohammad Ali Bazzi, Narayanan Jayaratchagan, Peter Paul Sellars, Raveesh Sharma, Sanjeev Kumar Jaiswal, Sergio Pacheco, Shaun Hickson, Shawn Smith, Shayn Cornwell, Vincent Theron, and William Rudenmalm.

A special thanks to Ivan Goncharov, who on March 15, 2017, forwarded me an email from Manning Publications, looking for someone to write a book that later became The Design of Web APIs. As luck would have it, I’m glad we met at REST Fest 2015.

Thank you to all the people who took time to read the manuscript at various stages and provided invaluable encouragement and feedback. Special thanks to Isabelle Reusa and Mehdi Medjaoui for field-testing the book’s content and providing their feedback. And thanks to all the API practitioners I have met and worked with over the years; I have put everything I have learned from you in this book.

And finally, a very big thanks to Mike Amundsen, Kin Lane, and Mehdi Medjaoui (again) for their encouragement and help when I started the API Handyman blog in 2015. This book wouldn’t have existed without you.