May 1, 2024
Updated June 3, 2025
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An Introduction to Cloud Endpoints
Cloud Endpoints is a system for developing, deploying, and managing Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) on Google Cloud. At a high level, it acts as a gateway that allows various applications to communicate with your backend services in a controlled and secure manner. Think of it as a sophisticated traffic manager for your digital services, ensuring that requests are properly authenticated, authorized, monitored, and routed to the correct destinations. This allows developers to focus on building the core logic of their applications without getting bogged down in the complexities of API infrastructure.
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Reading list
We've selected 31 books
that we think will supplement your
learning. Use these to
develop background knowledge, enrich your coursework, and gain a
deeper understanding of the topics covered in
Cloud Endpoints.
Foundational text for understanding the architectural style that often underpins cloud endpoints. It provides a comprehensive overview of microservices, covering design principles, integration, deployment, testing, and monitoring. It's highly relevant for gaining a broad understanding and is often used as a key reference in industry and academia.
Given the importance of securing cloud endpoints, this book is highly relevant. It teaches how to create secure APIs, covering authentication, authorization, and common security threats. It provides practical guidance for building secure systems, essential for anyone developing or managing cloud endpoints.
Offers a deep dive into the patterns and practices for building microservices, which are highly relevant to designing and implementing cloud endpoints. It provides detailed solutions for common challenges like inter-service communication, distributed data management, and testing. While examples are in Java, the patterns are broadly applicable.
Covers the design, operation, and evolution of API-based systems at an architectural level. It's highly relevant for understanding how cloud endpoints fit into a larger system landscape and how to manage them effectively over time.
Provides a comprehensive overview of API design principles and best practices. It covers topics such as API architecture, versioning, security, and documentation. While it does not cover Google Cloud Endpoints specifically, it valuable resource for anyone involved in the design and development of APIs.
Provides a solid foundation in the principles of RESTful web APIs, a common type of cloud endpoint. It delves into the architectural style, its constraints, and how to design APIs that are robust and evolvable. It's a valuable resource for gaining a broad understanding of API design fundamentals.
A practical guide to designing web APIs, offering principles and techniques applicable to both public and private APIs. It helps solidify understanding of good API design practices, which is directly relevant to creating effective cloud endpoints. is well-regarded for its practical advice.
Managing the lifecycle of APIs is vital for cloud endpoints. provides a comprehensive guide to API management, covering strategy, design, development, deployment, and evolution. It's a valuable reference for professionals involved in the full API lifecycle.
Focuses on building cloud-native applications on Google Cloud Platform, providing practical examples and best practices. It's highly relevant for those specifically working with Google Cloud Endpoints and offers hands-on guidance for developing and deploying applications in this environment.
While not solely focused on APIs, this book is crucial for understanding the underlying data systems that cloud endpoints interact with. It covers essential concepts for building scalable and reliable applications, including data models, storage, retrieval, and distributed systems. This provides valuable background knowledge for anyone working with cloud endpoints.
Focuses on designing APIs with the developer experience in mind, a crucial aspect of successful cloud endpoints. It covers design theory, practical exercises, and managing APIs in production. It's particularly useful for those looking to create user-friendly and widely adopted APIs.
Cloud endpoints are inherently part of distributed systems. This book, by a co-founder of Kubernetes, explores patterns for designing distributed systems, which is essential background knowledge for building scalable and reliable cloud-native applications and their endpoints.
Provides practical guidance and examples for designing RESTful APIs, covering design patterns, API gateways, security, and cloud deployment. It's a good resource for gaining hands-on experience in building cloud endpoints.
Presents a collection of proven patterns for designing APIs. Understanding these patterns can significantly improve the quality and consistency of cloud endpoints. It's a practical resource for developers and architects.
Offers insights into building and managing API solutions from an architect's perspective. It covers the technical aspects of building and managing an effective API management solution, including design principles, security, and versioning, all relevant to cloud endpoints.
Explores patterns and practices for building applications specifically for cloud environments. It helps in understanding how to design software that is resilient, scalable, and fits well within a cloud-native architecture, which is directly applicable to designing cloud endpoints.
Offers a practical guide to building and deploying microservices, covering essential topics like design, testing, and deployment strategies relevant to cloud environments and their endpoints. It good resource for those looking for hands-on implementation details.
A concise guide focusing on designing consistent RESTful API interfaces. It provides a set of rules and best practices for URI design, HTTP methods, and media types, which is directly applicable to creating well-designed cloud endpoints.
Offers a pragmatic approach to API design, focusing on creating APIs that are easy for developers to use and understand. It's a good resource for anyone building cloud endpoints and wanting to prioritize the developer experience.
Provides a broad understanding of cloud computing concepts, technologies, and architectural models. It serves as excellent background reading for understanding the environment in which cloud endpoints operate, covering essential topics like services, deployment models, and security.
Provides a comprehensive overview of the challenges and techniques involved in designing and building data-intensive applications. While it does not cover Google Cloud Endpoints specifically, it provides valuable insights into the challenges and opportunities of working with large datasets.
Provides a practical guide to building and deploying cloud-native applications using Java. It covers topics such as microservices, containers, and serverless computing. While it does not cover Google Cloud Endpoints specifically, it provides valuable insights into the challenges and opportunities of building and operating cloud-native applications.
A deeper dive into the principles of REST, focusing on hypermedia as the engine of application state. is considered a classic for understanding the more advanced aspects of RESTful design, which can be applied to building sophisticated cloud endpoints.
Provides a practical guide to designing and developing RESTful APIs. It covers topics such as resource modeling, HTTP verbs, error handling, and documentation. While it does not cover Google Cloud Endpoints specifically, it provides valuable insights that can be applied to any API development project.
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