Google made public their own guidelines on how they design all of their new cloud APIs a few years ago. They came to a very different conclusion while still ack

Google made public their own guidelines on how they design all of their new cloud APIs a few years ago. They came to a very different conclusion while still acknowledging the same points. Their position seems to be that REST standard methods as much as possible (even when technically delivering an RPC API) and fall back to custom methods when it makes sense to do so. https://cloud.google.com/apis/design/resources https://cloud.google.com/apis/design/resources