The basics of building a RESTful service
The term REST originated with Roy Thomas Fielding in his paper on Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures. In this paper he described a way to leverage the basic principles behind the web and apply those to business applications. He argues that the World Wide Web is in fact one of the largest applications used by millions of people every day and one that, despite frequent predictions to the opposite, has managed to scale very well. If the web as we know it is such an immensely scalable and quite reliable application when why don’t we build … Continue reading The basics of building a RESTful service