RESTful Web Services Cookbook by Subbu Allamaraju provides over 100 practical recipes for designing and implementing scalable, simple web services. Published by O’Reilly Media in collaboration with Yahoo! Press, this first edition guide covers essential topics including resource design, URI management, HTTP methods, caching, security with OAuth, and concurrency control. It serves as an invaluable resource for developers and architects looking to leverage REST, HTTP, and web infrastructure to build robust client and server applications. The content includes step-by-step instructions, code snippets in XML and JSON, and detailed discussions on the trade-offs of various architectural solutions.