ReST is just JSON with nice URIs and HTTP methods… ReST is dead… Some technologies even argue they are ReST 2.0. What they won’t tell you is that web technologies, outside the browser, have evolved tremendously since the ReST term was coined. APIs can now have the same benefits of the browser, with none of the defficiencies of old style Http-based RPC, and they’re all standard and vendor neutral. Come around and let’s have a lap around all the technologies allowing us to work with the biggest graph in the world, the internet.