REST, Hypermedia, and the Semantic Gap: Why “RMM Level-3 REST“ is not enough

Mike Amundsen, Director of API Architecture, API Academy, CA Technologies Presentation recorded at Google in Mountain View, April 22nd, 2014 Slides: Leonard Richardson’s 2008 book “RESTful Web Services“ taught us the power of the “Uniform Interface“ (GET PUT POST & DELETE). His 2013 book, “RESTful Web APIs“ goes one step further and describes how Hypermedia APIs can increase flexibility and reusability of APIs. But what are Hypermedia APIs? What do they look like