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REST

Roy Fielding

REST is Roy Fielding’s 2000 architectural style for the Web. It defines constraints—not rules—to diagnose scalability failures in distributed hypermedia systems. Its power lies in exposing gaps between promise and practice, especially around statelessness and HATEOAS. Most so-called RESTful APIs ignore its core mechanism: hypermedia-driven state transitions.