REST matters 

...one of the most misunderstood concept in the history of IT

(and you need more of it)

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REpresentational

State

Transfer

Defined by Roy Thomas Fielding in his 2000 PhD dissertation.

REST is a non-XML-based, web-based RPC or RMI

RPC - Remote Procedure Call

HTTP standard

  simple HTTP is used to make calls between machines.

CORBA, XML-RPC(popular is SOAP) are complex mechanisms to connect between machines

JSON

XML

YAML

Heavily relies highly in

HAL

Data Driven

{"resource": based}

Great for an era where data is the new gold

WHY?

FLEXIBLE APIS

APIs that stand the test of time.

Request. Response. Statuses. Links. Data

SOAP is Clunky

STATUS CODES

exeception already defined.

it's cacheable

Frequent request can be cached for saving time and processing resources

SOAP requests sent via HTTP POST which is not non-indepotent nor cachable

Easily secured

Can be transmitted via HTTPS, use OAuth2.0 or JWT (JavaScript Web Tokens)

SOAP requests sent via HTTP POST which is not non-indepotent nor cachable

it's stateless

All request are independent 
some are indempotent

SOAP services require maintaining an open stateful connection

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