The Greater Toronto Area Python User's Group (PyGTA)

20th October, 2009

RESTful APIs

REST, is a way of describing and limiting the operation of (web) applications which attempts to provide robustness, scalability and coherence. We'll discuss the idea and experiences implementing RESTful APIs.

REST is a set of limitations and principles which can be applied to client-server software. Taken together they attempt to allow for robust, highly scalable applications.

This Open Discussion will explore how we've used REST, problems we've encountered, advantages we've discovered, tricks we've picked up, and pitfalls to avoid.