Interview: When Is RESTful API Design Useful?
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Explains that true REST means using hypermedia (links) to drive application state rather than only HTTP verbs, and shows how servers return links (for example via the Location header) so clients follow URLs instead of constructing them. Describes a government-style system handling millions of writes per day by receiving data with metadata links, following and caching those links, and rewriting them to internal URLs to achieve extensibility and durability that simple ID-based APIs would lose over time.
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