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REST is an architectural style. It is not any strict standard but provides certain guidelines and constraints to be followed. Roy Fielding originally described these constraints in his doctoral dissertation and coined the name Representational State Transfer.
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De, B. (2017). Designing a RESTful API Interface. In: API Management. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1305-6_3
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