> Plus fewer silly discussions with REST-ish purists: “if an HTTP endpoint is idempotent should deleting the same resource twice give a 404 twice?” - dude, how’

> Plus fewer silly discussions with REST-ish purists: “if an HTTP endpoint is idempotent should deleting the same resource twice give a 404 twice?” - dude, how’s that helping the company to make money? It helps by trying to map standard metaphors to your company's concepts instead of inventing bespoke return types for your company's concepts. You still need to decide whether or not to indicate that the resource is either not there, or was never there.