Caching doesn't only happen in proxies. Clients can do it too and your app is a client and should cache what it can. But the real problem with REST is round tr

Caching doesn't only happen in proxies. Clients can do it too and your app is a client and should cache what it can. But the real problem with REST is round trip times and that is an artifact of REST being build on top of an RPC protocol. The future is EVENTful and I am not talking about websockets or any specific implementation of events. Fire and forget messaging is the way of the future.