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REST

concepts

Representational State Transfer — an architectural style for distributed hypermedia systems defining constraints for scalable web services

Pronunciation

Correct

rest

/rɛst/

One syllable, pronounced like the English word 'rest'. Coined by Roy Fielding in his 2000 doctoral dissertation. Always spoken as a word, not spelled out. Related terms: RESTful, REST API.

Source: www.ics.uci.edu(official spec)

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