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Re:When REST Gets Messy by icebraining on Friday July 11, 2014 @01:15AM (#8018976)
But if you are trying to argue that REST is better than competing technologies, the question is: what objective benefits does it offer, compared to those other technologies?

REST isn't a technology, it's an architectural style. Regarding its benefits, they are all well specified in Fielding's thesis. REST is composed of a few constraints, and abiding by each one gives you certain benefits.

That said, I agree with you vis-à-vis the need to avoid blinders. In my opinion, there's nothing wrong with using RPC if that's the most adequate solution. What bothers me are all those new RPC-over-HTTP which people insist on calling RESTful.

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Re:When REST Gets Messy by _pmf_ on Friday July 11, 2014 @03:27AM (#8019173)
> abiding by each one gives you certain benefits

And drawbacks.

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Re:When REST Gets Messy by icebraining on Friday July 11, 2014 @04:31AM (#8019279)
It's a constraint, I think that's implicit in the term itself.
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