Implementing Domain-Driven Design

Why REST?

In my experience, a system designed conforming to REST principles fulfills the promise of loose coupling. In general, it’s very easy to add new resources and links to them in existing resource representations. It’s also easy to add support for new formats where needed, leading to a much less brittle set of system connections. A REST-based system is much easier to understand, as it’s split into smaller chunks—the resources—each of which exposes a separately testable, debuggable, and usable entry point. The design of HTTP and the maturity of the tooling with support for features such as URI rewriting and caching make RESTful HTTP a great choice for architectures that need to be both loosely coupled and highly scalable.