If everyone were to create rules of interaction with microservices from scratch, we'd have an excess of private standards of intercommunication. REST isn't a strict set of rules, but it's an architectural style intended to make interacting with microservices simple. It provides a suggested set of HTTP methods to create, read, update, and delete data; and perform actions. We'll add methods to our service and fit them to REST principles.
Implementing the REST principles
Adding a shared state
You may have already heard that shared data is a bad thing and a potential cause of bottlenecks, if it has to be changed from separate threads. However, shared data can be useful if we want to share the address of...
