REST

• stands for reprsentational state transfer

• why is it awesome?

  • app A can talk to app B and both can be totally stateless
  • they don't have to remember the previous context as everytime they talk both send their current state, the other can just use and do what it wants
  • so any application can go down and it doesn't have to worry that all the conversation which happened is lost assuming everything is stored in-memory

• never use #integer as [database] #primarykey as it will overflow after 2.1 billion records and you can go viral for all the wrong reasons

  • read this twitter thread https://twitter.com/sarahmei/status/1348475215462817794?lang=en