Theoretical grounds for RESTful APIs
There is a lot said and written about REST and being RESTful, and in this post I give my two cents when it comes to what theoretical grounds I use when creating RESTful APIs. In the year 2000 Roy Thomas Fielding published his dissertation Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures. The last sentence of the abstract’s third paragraph reads: I then introduce the Representational State Transfer (REST) architectural style and describe how REST has been used to guide the design and development of the architecture for the modern Web....