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How did REST come to mean the opposite of REST?
In this article, Carson Gross explores how the term REST (Representational State Transfer) evolved to mean nearly the opposite of its original definition in modern web development. It traces how REST, originally defined by Roy Fielding to describe the web's architecture of hypermedia-driven interactions, came to be…
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Web & FrontendSoftware Engineering2022
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Jul 18, 2022 | How did REST come to mean the opposite of REST? by edofic | 398 | 383 |
| Mar 3, 2024 | How Did REST Come to Mean the Opposite of REST? (2022) by DeusExMachina | 76 | 53 |
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