Things I want to know more about

REST

How I explained REST to my brother

1. Who is Roy Fielding?

• is an American computer scientist, one of the principal authors of the HTTP specification and the originator of the Representational State Transfer (REST) architectural style. He is an authority on computer network architecture and co-founded the Apache HTTP Server project.

1. Why don’t the techniques that we use today work well when we need to be able to talk to all of the machines in the world?

   • Because of our need to provide determinants, information, and possibilities for accepting transit.

2. What is the HTTP protocol that Fielding and his friends created?

   • Fielding belonged to a small Web community that revised the standard into an email-like format, allowing users to send and receive hypertext documents.

3. What does a GET do?

   • GET is used to request data from a specified resource.

4. What does a POST do?

   • is a request method supported by HTTP used by the World Wide Web.

5. What does PUT do?

   • method is used to update resource available on the server. Typically, it replaces whatever exists at the target URL with something else.

6. What does PATCH do?

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API Keys

1. Did you get your Geocoding API key?

• yes.

1. Did you get your Weather Bit API key?

• yes.

1. Did you get your Yelp API Docs API key?

• no.

1. Did you get your Movie DB API Docs API key?

• no.