The key difference between the terms REST versus RESTful is that REST refers to a philosophy about the architecture and design of web services, while the term RESTful refers to any API that properly ...

If you want something other than puns... as an old timer... I still think REST is a cute idea- it can provide a quite intuitive, nearly self-documenting API, which is relatively easy to interop with ...

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I'm frankly surprised by the amount of people coding backends and frontends that communicate through REST. RPC is a nearly transparent mechanism that makes communication between two processes nearly ...