Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State - Logbook

Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State # 25 Nov 2010: The purpose of some of the strictness of this and other REST constraints, Fielding explains, is “software design on the scale of decades: every detail is intended to promote software longevity and independent evolution. Many of the constraints are directly opposed to short-term efficiency. Unfortunately, people are fairly good at short-term design, and usually awful at long-term design.”