Igeometry Podcast

  REST stands for Representational state transfer its is an architecture that became very popular in build web APIs. It was the dissertation of Roy Fielding. In this video we discuss what makes an API RESTFUL, the REST APIs constrains, ill the show you an example of a RESTFUL api in github.  Representation and State transfer  Representational  The resource is a representation or meta data, but the actual backend could be something else and stored differently. An  Example, could be a user resource could be represented as a JSON object but it is stored on the backend as relation DBMS tables such as postgres.  State transfer The application server is stateless, and when we want communicate we transfer the current state of with each request. Thus the state transfer.   Example, lets say you are uploading a 5MB file in 5 chunks each is 1 MB in size and assemble it on the backend. The REST api end point takes the content along with a upload sequence, then persist it on a storage ba