The document discusses how asynchronous APIs can survive in a REST-based world. It describes how Async APIs use an event-driven approach compared to the request-reply model of REST. The AsyncAPI specification aims to describe event-driven APIs similarly to how OpenAPI describes REST APIs. The document demonstrates how Async and REST APIs can work together using an example setup with an API gateway, manager, and message broker to connect an HTML page and Node.js client via published topics.