If you showed Dropbox's RPC API to a REST advocate, they'd probably frown and tell you it's a terrible API because it's not RESTful. You could try to argue that

If you showed Dropbox's RPC API to a REST advocate, they'd probably frown and tell you it's a terrible API because it's not RESTful. You could try to argue that it's not so bad for various reasons, but you still wouldn't be able to win the argument against an ardent REST advocate. But at the end of the day, Dropbox is probably going to be just fine with their RPC API. So what gives? Why should Dropbox care about REST? How would you sell the CEO on it? I'd love to read a follow up blog post called "What does REST buy you anyway". Related: https://xkcd.com/1270/ https://xkcd.com/1270/