For two decades, REST has been the undisputed monarch of API architecture. Stateless. Cacheable. Universally understood. Yet beneath this seemingly unshakeable foundation, tectonic shifts are occurring — and they’re happening fast.
Walk into any modern tech company today, and you’ll witness a quiet revolution. Engineers are abandoning REST endpoints in favor of something entirely different. gRPC calls zip through internal networks at breakneck speeds. GraphQL queries slice through data with surgical precision. The question isn’t whether change is coming — it’s whether REST can survive it.