Rest and Microservices talk at the Las Vegas .Net Group

Thanks to Richard Rosenheim for inviting me to talk on REST and Microservice at the Las Vegas .Net Group today.

If you came along, thanks for attending!

You can find my slides here.

You can also check out my blog posts that the talk is based on:

• An introduction to REST
• Microservices

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An intro to Microservices and REST: SoCal Code Camp 2014

If you came along to my session at the SoCal Code Camp, thanks for attending! Any feedback always appreciated.

You can find the slides on slideshare.

You can also check out my blog posts that the talk is based on:

• An introduction to REST
• Microservices

 

Shaun

 

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An introduction to REST

REST, or Representational State Transfer is an architectural style, or more simply, a set of constraints.

We will look at the constraints REST imposes for web apps, but some highlights are:

• Uniform interfaces: all resources are identified by URIs (think: links)
• It relies on a stateless, client-server, cacheable communications protocol (think: HTTP).
• Interaction with resources is via a set of standard methods (think: HTTP verbs)

 

REST can be viewed as a lightweight alternative to mechanisms like RPC (Remote Procedure Calls) and Web Services protocols (SOAP, WSDL, etc)., but it is much more than that too! It is not an exaggeration to say that REST has been used to guide the design and development of the architecture for the modern Web.

The term REST was defined in 2000 by Roy Fielding in his doctoral dissertation at UC Irvine.

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