Fielding's REST

Focus on the properties, not the constraints

This post is an excerpt from Mike Amundsen's book "RESTful Web API Patterns and Practices Cookbook" from O'Reilly Media.

As early as 1998, Roy T. Fielding made a presentation at Microsoft explaining his concept of Representational State Transfer (or REST as it is now known). In that talk, and his PhD dissertation that followed two years later (“Architect…