REST
Representational State Transfer — the dominant convention for HTTP APIs, organizing resources as URLs and verbs as HTTP methods.
In long form.
REST isn't a strict standard but a set of conventions: resources are nouns at URLs (`/users/42`), actions are HTTP verbs (GET to read, POST to create, PUT/PATCH to update, DELETE to remove), responses use HTTP status codes (200 ok, 404 not found, 500 server error). Real-world REST APIs vary in adherence — some are 'RESTful', others are 'mostly REST with some RPC-flavored endpoints.' REST's strength is its conformance with HTTP itself: caching, retries, and tooling all work naturally.
Most APIs we integrate with are REST or REST-flavored. For internal tools where the client is tightly coupled to the server, GraphQL or RPC-style frameworks can be a better fit — REST is the right default when the API serves multiple consumers.
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