REST doesn't make much sense outside of the context of it's original environment: coarse grain hypermedia systems. It was cargo-culted into first the SOAP API

REST doesn't make much sense outside of the context of it's original environment: coarse grain hypermedia systems. It was cargo-culted into first the SOAP API world and then, more humorously, into the JSON API world. Goes to show how much more institutional momentum matters than common sense in technical questions. Even granting XML and JSON could have a hypermedia imposed on top of them, if it is code, rather than a human, consuming the API, all the dynamicism of the uniform interface is wasted. HATEOAS is for humans: https://intercoolerjs.org/2016/05/08/hatoeas-is-for-humans.html https://intercoolerjs.org/2016/05/08/hatoeas-is-for-humans.h...