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It's time to put REST to rest

https://sollecitom.github.io/software-product-development-blog/posts/2023/2023-09-22-put-rest-to-rest/

REST is still going strong these days, with many companies structuring their HTTP API based on its principles. And yet, I think that REST is a fundamental mistake, that it caused a lot of damage and pain, and that people should just stop creating RESTful HTTP APIs.

There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.

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uhhhhh

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I think it's always good to have discussion around how we can change and improve upon what we've done for a long time.

That said, they completely lost me on "POST on /commands/report-student-lastname-change/version/1"

Holy crap, now we have to implement one of these for each field that could be changed instead of just using one PATCH? No thank you...