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As a consultant I meet a lot of people who think the goals of REST are pointless and have created an absolute shitshow of poor API design, reinventing loads of
by psturgeon 5y ago
As a consultant I meet a lot of people who think the goals of REST are pointless and have created an absolute shitshow of poor API design, reinventing loads of wheels and getting to a point they had to get me to come in. Usually explaining the background for why those goals are not pointless is the first step to unfucking their API ecosystem.
https://apisyouwonthate.com/blog/rest-and-hypermedia-in-2019 https://apisyouwonthate.com/blog/rest-and-hypermedia-in-2019
That's a post which aims to explain the tangible benefits of each step, but I've got plenty more articles explaining when REST is overkill and simple RPC would be a better fit.