Seventeen years after the debut of REST (REpresentational State Transfer) at ICSE 2000, the original research team published a recap of its influence on the discipline of software architecture in general and impact on Web API designs specifically.
Reflections on the REST Architectural Style and “Principled Design of the Modern Web Architecture”
by Roy T. Fielding, Richard N. Taylor, Justin Erenkrantz, Michael M. Gorlick, E. James Whitehead, Rohit Khare, Peyman Oreizy
in Proceedings of the 2017 11th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2017), pp. 4-11
Reflections on the REST Architectural Style and “Principled Design of the Modern Web Architecture”
by Roy T. Fielding, Richard N. Taylor, Justin Erenkrantz, Michael M. Gorlick, E. James Whitehead, Rohit Khare, Peyman Oreizy
in Proceedings of the 2017 11th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2017), pp. 4-11