REST stands for 'Representational State Transfer' and it was the nice light-weight way we created interfaces between programs running on the web (instead of using the heavy and over-engineered Web Services architecture). But now Tim Bray is looking at what comes after REST. "Messaging and Eventing... is all over, and I mean all over, the cloud infrastructure that I work on," he writes. Request workflows are another area of focus. But the big changes are persistent connections and "QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections) which abandons TCP in favor of UDP, while retaining HTTP semantics." The idea is to speed up streaming content (such as games, messaging and video) as explained here.
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