Building High-Performance REST APIs with Modern C++: A Practical Guide to Drogon, PostgreSQL, and Production-Grade API Design (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798188359942)

Most REST API books teach isolated examples. This book teaches you how to build a complete production-ready backend.

Building High-Performance REST APIs with Modern C++ takes you step by step through the development of FastStore, a fully functional e-commerce backend that evolves throughout the book. Instead of jumping between disconnected tutorials, you'll design, build, secure, optimize, test, and deploy one real application while learning the technologies and architectural patterns used in modern backend engineering.

Using C++23, Drogon, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, and Nginx, you'll learn how to create scalable REST APIs capable of handling demanding, latency-sensitive workloads while following clean architecture and industry best practices.

Inside you'll learn how to:

- Build RESTful APIs using the modern Drogon framework
- Design clean, scalable API architectures
- Connect applications to PostgreSQL using Drogon's ORM
- Implement authentication with JWT and role-based authorization
- Create secure product, shopping cart, and order management services
- Improve performance using Redis caching and connection pooling
- Handle file uploads and media services securely
- Write comprehensive unit, integration, and load tests
- Protect APIs against common security threats
- Deploy applications with Docker and Nginx
- Optimize latency, throughput, and scalability for production environments
- Build, benchmark, and deploy a complete production-ready backend platform

Rather than focusing only on code, this book emphasizes real-world software engineering practices including layered architecture, middleware design, validation, structured logging, performance optimization, monitoring, deployment strategies, and operational readiness.

Whether you're an experienced C++ developer entering backend development, a software engineer looking for maximum API performance, or a student wanting to build a professional portfolio project, this guide provides the practical knowledge needed to develop modern high-performance REST services from the ground up.

By the final chapter, you'll have built, tested, secured, optimized, and deployed a complete backend platform that demonstrates the power of Modern C++ in real-world web application development.