Presentation about the basic principles in REST

7. “ Design depends largely on constraints.” — Charles Eames

8. Roy Fielding Attribution: Paul Downey http://blog.whatfettle.com

12. Imagine the web without links

13. Without linking Server Client GET http://bjarlestam.com/slides [slide1, slide2, slide3, slide4] GET http://bjarlestam.com/slides/getSlide?id=slide1

14. With linking Server Client GET http://bjarlestam.com/slides [ http://bjarlestam.com/slides/slide1, http://bjarlestam.com/slides/slide2, http://bjarlestam.com/slides/slide3, http://bjarlestam.com/slides/slide4 ] GET http://bjarlestam.com/slides/slide1

15. Why is it better to link the resources?

17. Statelessness

18. Imagine Google being stateful

21. What makes the stateless Google better than the stateful?

23. Caching

24. Client Proxy Cache Client Client Server Proxy Cache Client Reverse Proxy Cache Client Cache Client Cache Client Cache Client Cache

25. “ The best requests are those that not even reach me.” - Anonymous overloaded Server

29. “ I think most people just make the mistake that it should be simple to design simple things. In reality, the effort required to design something is inversely proportional to the simplicity of the result.” - Roy Fielding

30. True! Unless someone else has already done the thinking for you

37. For the interested