REST vs. CRUD

Steven Curtis
4 min readApr 22, 2020

With diagrams: Commands, architecture and networking.

Photo by Toa Heftiba on Unsplash

Prerequisites:

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Terminology

CRUD: The four basic functions of persistent storage; create, read, update, and delete

REST (REpresentational State Transfer): architectural style for providing standards between computer systems

REST

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