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HTTP

HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) is the application-layer protocol of the World Wide Web. Clients send requests, servers send responses, and the web works.

First version: HTTP/0.9 (1991)
Current: HTTP/3

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First version: HTTP/0.9 (1991)
Current: HTTP/3

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GraphQL and REST

REST fits resources with simple lifecycles. GraphQL fits clients that need to query a graph of related data.

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What is the World Wide Web?

The web is not the internet. It is a specific system of hyperlinked documents on top of it.

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Understanding REST APIs

REST is more about following the grain of HTTP than about the letter of any specification.

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The evolution of the internet

The internet is older than the web. It began as a research project and became infrastructure without ever quite meaning to.

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HTTP, explained

HTTP is a request-response protocol. Everything else — REST, GraphQL, gRPC over HTTP — is a discipline on top of it.

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