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Stop using REST for state synchronization
via jbranchaud@gmail.com
https://www.mbid.me/posts/stop-using-rest-for-state-synchronization/
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What struck me is how incredibly cumbersome, repetitive and brittle this programming model is, and I think much of this is due to using REST as interface between the client and the server. REST is a state transfer protocol, but we usually want to synchronize a piece of state between the client and the server. This mismatch means that we usually implement ad-hoc state synchronization on top of REST, and it turns out that this is not entirely trivial and actually incredibly cumbersome to get right.