This might be useful to look at from a real world point of view: http://davidwhitney.co.uk/Blog/2013/10/27/lessons-learnt-scaling-a-big-mainstream-restful-api/

This might be useful to look at from a real world point of view: http://davidwhitney.co.uk/Blog/2013/10/27/lessons-learnt-scaling-a-big-mainstream-restful-api/ http://davidwhitney.co.uk/Blog/2013/10/27/lessons-learnt-sca...