REST, for real!

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Claims that most APIs labeled REST actually break Fielding’s constraints and that restoring hypermedia stops clients from baking in server URLs. Walks through splitting a monolith into two Node services, shows duplicated auth/code and broken client requests, then fixes both with an API gateway and Express Gateway (Node, Docker) plus RESTful JSON links (URL and _links in payload). Builds a live demo client that follows server-provided links and works unchanged when services merge back.

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1. 0:00Introduction and background
2. 2:06Microservices overview
3. 4:43Challenges in microservices
4. 9:13Live demo of a monolith
5. 13:01Splitting into microservices
6. 16:02Addressing microservice issues
7. 20:01RESTful architectural style
8. 25:41Implementing hypermedia
9. 30:01Returning to monolith
10. 32:38API gateway authentication
11. 33:49Express Gateway conclusion

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