PostgREST Mastery

PostgREST Mastery: Building Practical APIs Directly from PostgreSQL is a hands-on guide for developers, architects, and DevOps professionals who want to design robust, scalable, and modern RESTful APIs straight from PostgreSQL. It begins with the essentials of PostgREST and RESTful design in a database-driven context, explaining how the framework works, where it excels, and how it compares with alternative approaches. Readers will gain a clear understanding of adoption scenarios, deployment patterns, and the practical trade-offs involved in building APIs directly on top of the database.

The book then moves into advanced PostgreSQL modeling for API exposure, covering schema design, views, stored functions, relationships, and performance-aware patterns that make APIs both expressive and efficient. It also provides detailed guidance on configuration and customization, including endpoint shaping, response control, and extending PostgREST with PostgreSQL features and extensions. Security is treated as a core concern throughout, with in-depth coverage of authentication, role-based access control, fine-grained authorization, and threat modeling to help ensure APIs are safe, reliable, and compliant.

Finally, PostgREST Mastery explores the operational side of production use, including query optimization, automation, CI/CD, containerization, infrastructure management, high availability, and disaster recovery. It also examines how PostgREST fits into modern application ecosystems such as microservices, serverless platforms, and edge deployments. Rich with practical strategies and real-world considerations, the book serves as an authoritative reference for building and operating APIs directly from PostgreSQL with confidence.