Dick Dowdell
Jul 10, 2022

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Thank you for an excellent post, AB. I very frequently bump into posts and articles criticizing REST and promoting some narrowly-focused technology like gRPC or GraphQL as a panacea for all use cases.

The vast majority of those criticisms have more to do with the misuse of REST than any inherent inconsistencies in the REST architectural pattern. I've come to the conclusion that few people inderstand the pattern and instead assume that REST is an HTTP-based procedural API.

As this post does, I've been trying to get people to understand REST itself rather than its myths.

https://medium.com/nerd-for-tech/designing-a-rest-api-3a070398750f

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Dick Dowdell
Dick Dowdell

Written by Dick Dowdell

A former US Army officer with a wonderful wife and family, I’m a software architect and engineer who has been building software systems for 50 years.