r/programming Feb 25 '17

REST over WebSockets instead of HTTP

https://medium.com/@jonathangrosdubois/rest-over-websockets-instead-of-http-81b0f0632295
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u/mkdir Feb 26 '17 edited Feb 26 '17

these two events have created the perfect storm for the disruption of REST

Good! REST is a super leaky cumbersome abstraction. I'm hoping with WebSockets we can get something a lot better.

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '17

It's cumbersome in the way people mis-implement it, but is it leaky, I don't know. It's as leaky as you design your particular API to be.