Synergy DevPartner Conference 2018: Representational State Transfer (REST) is an architectural style that defines a set of constraints and properties based on HTTP. Web Services conforming to the REST style provide interoperability between computer systems on private networks and the Internet. Adopting the principles of REST has quickly become the accepted way of exposing flexible, easy to use, performant, and secure APIs and building applications that consume those APIs.

Whether you’re building a desktop, server, web, or mobile app, RESTful services almost certainly have a place at the very core of your development strategy.

In this video, Steve Ives provides a high-level overview of the basic principles of REST and RESTful web services, explains why adopting REST is so important, and presents information about how to get started with REST in your Synergy/DE environment.