Web
Web Development
Self-Contained System, a useful variant of microservice http://scs-architecture.org/
ROCA, the essence of web application principles, for using the web like it was designed for.
Excellent article on heise about ROCA
Usefull web app architecture suggestions from experiences at heroku.
Web APIs
You should understand this before you call your API RESTful: http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hypertext-driven
If you want to use JSON then http://json-ld.org/ and http://www.hydra-cg.com/ are promising approaches
highly recommended, author of a very good book for Web Api design: http://amundsen.com/hypermedia/
Interesting article about using HTML as the media type for APIs.
Worthwhile video presentation from the same author of the article above: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/web-api-html .
http://morethancoding.com/2012/10/24/the-web-apis-you-use-will-fail/
- some popular Web APIs:
Access and Identity Management
excellent eBook on Identity and Access Management
useful 50 Data Principles For Loosely-Coupled Identity Management from the same author then above
http://wisdomofganesh.blogspot.de/2013/03/the-happy-confluence-of-iam-soa-and.html
Online Webinar about The Future Of Federated Identity: Or, Whither SAML? (recorded July 19, 2012) at http://www.incommon.org/iamonline/
OAuth2/OpenID Connect
Comprehensible comparison of OAuth 2.0 and Web Browser SSO Profile: Choosing an SSO Strategy: SAML vs OAuth2
In cloud-friendly web services security, "there is no enterprise." wait. what?
Forrester research article about Web Apis, OAuth and the enterprise.
http://blogs.forrester.com/eve_maler/12-03-12-a_new_venn_of_access_control_for_the_api_economy
REST
should not be missing, the dissertation from Roy Fielding.
Misc
List of intresting Web Tools.
Database