I have a near-immediate distrust of anyone who says "you're all doing REST wrong." I've built my share of REST APIs. I've seen firsthand the tradeoff they fac

I have a near-immediate distrust of anyone who says "you're all doing REST wrong." I've built my share of REST APIs. I've seen firsthand the tradeoff they face as more use cases are added, between letting the payload size keep creep upwards or exploding the number of endpoints. I like what GraphQL is doing to fix that. On the other hand I've never seen an API in the wild that I felt would really satisfy a REST purist. In theory, it'd be great to be able to stick a dumb HTTP cache in front of your app and have that solve all your performance and scalability problems. In practice, you have to sacrifice too much.