Resource Oriented Architecture

This chapter in Beautiful Architecture dealt with the benefits of the architecture the World Wide Web uses. This would be useful inside many businesses, as many finding items on the web is often easier than finding things on the company network, an observation that I know holds true where I work anyway!

The REST architecture was held up as the best architecture in this scenario, which consists of the GET, PUT/POST and DELETE verbs. While only 4, I think they are fine for managing information, as creating, editing, viewing and removing information are the only things that need to be done, and these are covered.

It is also important in this architecture to separate the information from the address. Decoupling these two parts allows one to change the information without breaking any existing users/connections. This is important in providing reliability to users.