REST was the undisputed champion of web APIs forever. It dethroned SOAP and its verbose XML in favor of svelte JSON over HTTP. REST also had a quite elaborate conceptual model rooted in resources and verbs. But, REST wasn’t a perfect fit for every problem….

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