I'm frankly surprised by the amount of people coding backends and frontends that communicate through REST. RPC is a nearly transparent mechanism that makes communication between two processes nearly ...

APIs seem to be everywhere these days. Every popular online service has one. APIs allow developers to interact with online services without actually having to point and click their way through a UI.

If you want something other than puns... as an old timer... I still think REST is a cute idea- it can provide a quite intuitive, nearly self-documenting API, which is relatively easy to interop with ...