Category: Software Architecture

A beginner-friendly, production-grade comparison of gRPC and REST built around the passing-notes-in-class analogy: REST is plain-English handwriting anyone can read, gRPC is a shared codebook of tiny symbols that both sides decode from a shared .proto file. Full history from Roy Fielding’s year-2000 REST dissertation through 2000s-2010s REST+JSON dominance, Google’s…

A beginner-to-production deep dive into HATEOAS (Hypermedia As The Engine Of Application State): the web-browser analogy for what hypermedia means for machine clients, the full history from Roy Fielding’s 2000 REST dissertation through his 2008 “REST APIs must be hypertext-driven” blog post, the 2010 Richardson Maturity Model, the 2011 HAL…