With the rise of cloud computing and microservice architectures HTTP APIs are becoming ubiquitous. In this talk we will look at the two API paradigms – Json-RPC and REST. We begin by looking at the advantages, and disadvantages, of each and the implementation challenges they were intended to address.
Finally we will look at what is involved in migrating a legacy system from Json-RPC to a RESTful API using the example of a recent project the speaker was involved with.