REST e Resource Oriented Architectures

The document discusses Representational State Transfer (REST) as an architectural style for web services, emphasizing its principles and how to design RESTful services through resource identification, URI design, and the uniform interface. It highlights the differences between REST and other architectural models, the importance of stateless interactions, and the potential for building applications that are discoverable, testable, and scalable. Through examples, it illustrates how REST applies to a chess game scenario and asserts the relevance of REST in modern web development.