RESTful primer
There’s a lot of stuff to know in tech. While it’s possible to know conceptually how things work from top to bottom, knowing all of the specifics is another story. I’ve run into a lot of engineers who just don’t understand what it’s about at all, so my hope is to clear that up. REST is a very common tool in the web world, and for good reason. If you want to know all of the super specific stuff about REST and look up RFCs, wikipedia’s REST article is probably a good start. This is not that article. The purpose here is to give you a really basic idea of what this whole REST thing is. RESTful APIs are pretty sweet compared to existing alternatives, but more details can be covered in a later post. ...