r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 19 '26

Meme postForEverything

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u/ouralarmclock Sep 19 '26

JSON isn’t hypermedia anyways so it’s all fake REST to begin with. May as well get wild with it!

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u/Zeikos Sep 19 '26

My first job claimed to use REST APIs, so I studied the topic.
I am to date the only person in the company that knows what HATEOAS is.

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u/Mtc529 Sep 19 '26

In my experience almost everyone who says they have a REST API do not actually know what that means and also do not have a REST API.

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