In the year 2000 Roy Fielding’s acclaimed dissertation introduced the Representational State Transfer (REST) software design criteria, focusing on a series of constraints to simplify and standardize web services development. Although these guidelines were not immediately adopted as the norm, they paved the way for today’s petabyte-scale web architectures. Before exploring the principles behind REST APIs and high scalability, an … Continue reading The Geek Mythology  Guide to REST APIs