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REST

Representational State Transfer

Definition

REST is an architectural style for designing web APIs based on HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE) and resource-oriented URLs. RESTful APIs are stateless, cacheable, and use standard HTTP status codes.

REST's simplicity and broad tooling support make it the dominant pattern for public APIs, though gRPC and GraphQL are gaining adoption for specific use cases.

Related Terms

API

Application Programming Interface

gRPC

Google Remote Procedure Call

CRUD

Create, Read, Update, Delete

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