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		cyberax 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Most RESTful APIs aren't really RESTful So it was a contemporary of Protobufs, Cap’n Proto, and other frameworks. Facebook had Thrift, Amazon had Coral, and so on. They appeared almost simultaneously, for the very same reason: REST by itself is too vague and unreliable.

bborud 5 months ago [–]

I think all of them came a bit later. And I do remember Thrift. With regret.

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