Architecting APIs with Hasura

"Architecting APIs with Hasura"
"Architecting APIs with Hasura" is a comprehensive guide that empowers engineers, architects, and API designers to unlock the full potential of Hasura's modern GraphQL engine. From foundational concepts to advanced application design, the book meticulously covers Hasura's architecture, detailing how its core subsystems, metadata management, and compiled query engine work in concert to deliver high-performance, flexible APIs. Readers will gain a deep appreciation for contrasting self-hosted and cloud deployments, and master relational schema modeling, migrations, and optimization strategies tailored for dynamic GraphQL workloads.
Through practical, expertly structured chapters, this book offers actionable insights into robust API design, showcasing Hasura's capabilities for CRUD endpoints, custom actions, remote schema federation, and seamless REST-GraphQL bridging. Beyond the basics, it addresses the critical demands of security, authentication, authorization, and observability, providing best practices for safeguarding sensitive data, mitigating attack vectors, and implementing comprehensive auditing and monitoring within distributed environments. Performance optimization, real-time subscriptions, horizontal scaling, and caching are systematically explained, equipping readers to build APIs that are resilient, scalable, and responsive to enterprise needs.
"Architecting APIs with Hasura" also delves into integrating business logic, orchestrating event-driven workflows, and rigorously testing API quality through all phases of deployment. Richly illustrated with use cases such as edge computing, machine learning integration, cost optimization, and DevOps automation, the book remains forward-looking by addressing extensibility, ecosystem integration, and the evolving roadmap of the Hasura platform. Whether you are building your first API or scaling complex distributed systems, this essential reference illuminates best practices and innovation pathways for accelerated, future-ready API development with Hasura.