Arnaud Lauret

ARNAUD LAURET is a French software architect with 17 years of experience. He spent most of these years in the finance sector working on interconnecting systems in various ways, especially using web services and APIs. He runs the API Handyman blog and the API Stylebook web site and is a guest lecturer at multiple API conferences around the world. He is passionate about human-centered software design and loves to build and help to build systems that will provide a wonderful experience for all users, from developers and operations teams to end users.

books by Arnaud Lauret

The Design of Web APIs, Second Edition
  • June 2025
  • ISBN 9781633438149
  • 536 pages
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white
catalog / Software Development / Web / API / API Design

The Design of Web APIs, Second Edition teaches you to design efficient and adaptable REST APIs. This revised and rewritten second edition contains the latest updates to the OpenAPI standard, along with insights you can apply to other API styles such as GraphQL. Learn vital skills for gathering requirements, creating easy-to-consume public and private web APIs, and handling non-backward compatible modifications and versioning.

The Design of Web APIs
  • October 2019
  • ISBN 9781617295102
  • 392 pages
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white
  • Available translations: Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Drawing on author Arnaud Lauret's many years of API design experience, this book teaches you how to gather requirements, how to balance business and technical goals, and how to adopt a consumer-first mindset. It teaches effective practices using numerous interesting examples.