"JSON is becoming the backbone for meaningful data interchange over the internet. This format is now supported by an entire ecosystem of standards, tools and technologies for building truly elegant, useful and efficient applications. with this hands-on guide, author and architect Tom Marrs shows you how to build enterprise-class applications and services by leveraging JSON tooling and message/document design.

JSON at Work provides application architects and developers with guidelines, best practices and use cases, along with lots of real-world examples and code samples. You’ll start with a comprehensive JSON overview, explore the JSON ecosystem and then dive into JSON’s use in the enterprise.

Get acquainted with JSON basics and learn how to model JSON data
Learn how to use JSON with Node.js, Ruby on Rails and Java
Structure JSON documents with JSON Schema to design and test APIs
Search the contents of JSON documents with JSON Search tools
Convert JSON documents to other data formats with JSON Transform tools
Compare JSON-based hypermedia formats, including HAL and jsonapi
Leverage MongoDB to store and access JSON documents

Use Apache Kafka to exchange JSON-based messages between services

About the Author

Tom Marrs is passionate about demonstrating the business value of technology. As an Enterprise Architect at TEKsystems Global Services, he leverages the enabling architectures and technologies that fuel the growing API Economy – REST, Microservices and JSON. Tom has led enterprise-class API, Web, Mobile, Cloud and SOA projects. An avid Agilist, Tom is a Certified Scrum Master and enjoys mentoring and coaching project teams.

In other JSON-related work, Tom wrote the Core JSON Refcard for DZone (the #1 downloaded Refcard in 2013). In a past life, Tom co-authored JBoss at Work for O’Reilly. Tom has also been a speaker at the OSCON, No Fluff Just Stuff (NFJS) and Great Indian Developer Summit (GIDS) conferences."