Have you noticed a slight slowdown in your websites lately, but timing them with a stopwatch is doing you no favors? If you find this is happening, you know you’ll have to report it to management, but ...

Think of a REST API like a waiter in a restaurant. You (an app) tell the waiter what you want (your request), and the waiter goes to the kitchen (the server) to get it for you. REST is just a set of ...