Creating the service

There are many ways to create a service, such as via REST.

For those who haven’t worked with REST before, REST stands for representational state transfer. Simply put, it is a way for machines to talk to other devices using HTTP.

With REST, we use different HTTP verbs for different operations. They could look something like this:

URI	Verb	Action
/BlogPosts	Get	Gets a list of blog posts
/BlogPosts	Post	Creates a new blog post
/BlogPosts/{id}	Get	Gets a blog post with a specific ID ...