Give a man a hammer, everything looks like a nail. REST has become a bit of a hammer. The reason a lot of RESTful designed software I've seen has such poor perf

Give a man a hammer, everything looks like a nail. REST has become a bit of a hammer. The reason a lot of RESTful designed software I've seen has such poor performance is because REST is used like a hammer... everywhere! And whole bunch of places it's not needed and it's not ideal.