If you’re not familiar with REST (REpresentational State Transfer) Applications, get started. Sooner or later (if it hasn’t happened already), it’ll hit the tech-industry hype bin and we’ll be up to our ears in people talking about it. Actually you are probably intimately familiar with REST already: its beating heart is the basic HTTP web protocol which we’ve all been using since day one. There is a current healthy debate among REST advocates and the SOAP/Web Services community (as well as others in the Decentralization crowd) that I find interesting to follow. If you’re into this sort of stuff, it’s a fascinating new/old discussion.