GOTO 2014 - REST: I don't Think it Means What You Think it Does - Stefan Tilkov

My notes on GOTO 2014 - REST: I don't Think it Means What You Think it Does - Stefan Tilkov

"People decide they want to build something in a RESTful fashion, so they spend all their time arguing about where the slashes go".

"It is the first litmus test for your REST API whether you depend on specific characters in your URIs for things to work."
(From the client's point of view.)

"Version numbers in URIs just suck.  Everybody does it which doesn't make it any less sucky.  It is a stupid idea.  Don't do that."

"The version number is in the URI because the URI is the API". <-- ? I would assume the URI is NOT the API.

Versioning: "Version your documentation documents. Wait what? --Yes, no versioning".

Postel's law "TCP implementations should follow a general principle of robustness: Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others." http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc761

    Client rules
Don't depend on URI structure
Support unknown links
Ignore unknown content
    Server rules
Don't break URI structure unnecessarily
Evolve via additional resources
Support older formats

Discovery/Discoverability: "JSON Home" http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-nottingham-json-home-03

Hypermedia APIs "give you flexibility", "are cool", "are neat" <-- no explanation

"Excellent question, do I know any examples of widely used public APIs that fully follow this model?  No."