Jose Haro

José Haro Peralta is a software and architecture consultant. With over 10 years of experience, José has helped organizations big and small to build complex systems, architect microservice platforms, and deliver API integrations. He’s also the founder of microapis.io, a company that provides software consulting and training services. Recognized as a thought leader in the fields of cloud computing, DevOps, and software automation, José speaks regularly at international conferences and frequently organizes public workshops and seminars.

books by Jose Haro

Secure APIs
  • MEAP began May 2024
  • Publication in August 2025 (estimated)
  • ISBN 9781633436633
  • 325 pages (estimated)
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white

Secure APIs: Design, build, and implement shows you modern approaches to uncovering and stopping threats to your APIs, including the OWASP Top 10 API security vulnerabilities, architectural weaknesses, and common mistakes for authentication and authorization. Throughout the book, you’ll find techniques for testing system security, identifying data leak vectors, and discovering insufficient constraints.

You’ll explore dozens of practical examples based on real-world APIs that range from e-commerce to ride-sharing. Learn how to ensure that your organization is aligned with the need for API security, and shift left to bake the essential principles of secure API design in at the earliest stages of development. Plus, patterns and advice for observability ensure you can spot intrusions early and know what to do in the event of an attack.

Microservice APIs
  • December 2022
  • ISBN 9781617298417
  • 440 pages
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white
  • Available translations: Japanese, Russian

Microservice APIs gathers proven techniques for creating and building easy-to-consume APIs for microservices applications. Rich with proven advice and Python-based examples, this practical book focuses on implementation over philosophy. You’ll learn how to build robust microservice APIs, test and protect them, and deploy them to the cloud following principles and patterns that work in any language.