About website, book and their authors

Patterns for API Design (aka Microservice API Patterns) results from a collaboration of authors from the industry and academia (2016-2022). Who wrote it?

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Olaf Zimmermann

Consulting software architect and professor @ Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences (OST), Rapperswil, Switzerland

Mirko Stocker

Full stack developer and professor @ Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences (OST), Rapperswil, Switzerland; Managing Director @ LegalGo GmbH

Daniel Lübke

Digital Solution Architecture, Hanover, Germany

Uwe Zdun

University of Vienna, Faculty of Computer Science, Software Architecture Research Group, Vienna, Austria

Cesare Pautasso

Software Institute, Faculty of Informatics, USI Lugano, Switzerland

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Acknowledgements

We want to thank all the people who provided feedback, especially the shepherds and writer’s workshop participants from EuroPLoP 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 as well as Andrei Furda who provided input to the introductory material and reviewed many of our patterns, Oliver Kopp and Hans-Peter Hoidn who organized several informal workshops with peers. We also would like to thank the students of the HSR/OST lectures “Advanced Patterns and Frameworks” and “Application Architecture” since 2018 that and discussed some of our patterns and provided additional feedback (for instance, Dominic Gabriel). Last but certainly not least we thank Vaughn Vernon and Frank Leymann for their Forewords to our book.

More elaborate acknowledgments can be found in our MAP related publications and our book.