Advanced CRUD operations

In this section of the book we’re going to look at a few more ‘advanced’ patterns that you might want to use in your API’s CRUD endpoints.

You’ll learn:

• How to support partial updates to a resource (so that the client only needs to send the data that they want to change).

• How to use optimistic concurrency control to avoid race conditions when two clients try to update the same resource at the same time.

• How to use context timeouts to terminate long-running database queries and prevent unnecessary resource use.