Roy T. Fielding wrote and described REST in his dissertation in the 2000’s. He basically told about the an architectural pattern and mapped it to most common protocol: HTTP
Since these days the IT community began to realize and to understand more and more what it means to deal with resources, what power and strength HTTP provides. But what’s so special about it? And why does everybody talk about it but the least understood it? Why is today everything called REST, but in fact it’s not REST? Let’s dig into it.
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