I stopped drinking the REST cool aid years ago, for pretty much the same reasons. It's not that HTTP APIs aren't useful - of course they are - it's the religio

I stopped drinking the REST cool aid years ago, for pretty much the same reasons. It's not that HTTP APIs aren't useful - of course they are - it's the religious adherence to REST doctrine that is harmful. I take the author's point to basically be, "do the simplest thing that makes sense for your use case, don't worry about how RESTful it is", which I totally agree with.