Re: How much REST should your Web API get?

"Eric J. Bowman" <[email protected]> Thu, 2 May 2013 20:33:55 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.services.rest
Organization Bison Systems Corporation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Jérôme Louvel wrote:
> 
> REST was never designed to solve all software architecture problems.
> That's quite the opposite and what makes it so powerful to scale the
> web of hypermedia documents.
> 

What nobody's disproven, is the networked hypermedia document paradigm
is the most efficient solution to the distributed computing problem.
Therefore it does make sense to model systems to fit this paradigm,
wherever possible; a more natural paradigm for the problem space isn't
necessarily going to work at Internet scale over a period of decades.

-Eric