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The REST API


The name Representational state transfer (REST) was coined by Roy Fielding
from the University of California. It is a very simplified and lightweight web
service compared to SOAP. Performance, scalability, simplicity, portability, and
flexibility are the main principles behind the REST design. 

The REST API allows different systems to communicate and send/receive data in
a very simple way. Each and every REST API call has a relation between an
HTTP verb and the URL. The resources in the database in an application can be
mapped with an API endpoint in the REST architecture.

When you are using a mobile app on your phone, your phone might be talking to
many cloud services to retrieve, update, or delete your data. REST services have
a huge impact on our daily lives.

REST is a stateless, cacheable, and simple architecture that is not a protocol, but


a pattern. This pattern allows different endpoints to communicate with each other
over HTTP.

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