Turns out REST APIs weren't the answer (and that's OK!)

A decade ago, it seemed like everybody was talking about ReST APIs and HATEOAS, blog comment threads bristled with spirited debates about whether something was, or was not, a REST API, and we all thought hypermedia was the key to building long-lived APIs. And yet here we are, a decade later, building just as many APIs as before but seems like hardly anybody's talking about hypermedia... so what happened? NOTE: At 8:14 or so, you can hear what sounds like a cat in this video. I am absolutely baffled as to where this came from, as there weren't any cats (or kids, or anything else that might have made a weird meowing squeaky noise) anywhere nearby when I was filming this. I've decided it must be a Ghost Cat: one of my cats who's no longer with us is now haunting my OBS installation. Let's see if they show up again in any future videos. Links: Roy Fielding's dissertation "Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures": https://ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm Roy Fielding: "REST APIs must be hypertext-driven", October 2008: https://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hypertext-driven Hypermedia Formats: SIREN: https://github.com/kevinswiber/siren HYDRA: https://www.hydra-cg.com/ JSON-LD: https://json-ld.org/ Collection+JSON: http://amundsen.com/media-types/collection/ HAL - Hypertext Application Language: https://stateless.group/hal_specification.html