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Simplicity? Have you ever tried to integrate distributed applications that do not share the same codebase?
And calling REST anti-pattern tells me that you aren't that familiar with alternatives.
>despite virtually all of them being RPC APIs with a veneer of rather pointless HTTP semantics.
If you want to do RPC over HTTP and pretend that it is REST interface, it isn't really a problem of REST.
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Simplicity? Have you ever tried to integrate distributed applications that do not share the same codebase?
And calling REST anti-pattern tells me that you aren't that familiar with alternatives.
>despite virtually all of them being RPC APIs with a veneer of rather pointless HTTP semantics.
If you want to do RPC over HTTP and pretend that it is REST interface, it isn't really a problem of REST.