REST

REST, which stands for Representational State Transfer, is an architectural style that defines a set of constraints to be used for creating Web services. It's not a protocol or a standard in itself, but rather a set of guidelines for how clients and servers should communicate on the web, leveraging existing internet protocols like HTTP. The core principles of REST include statelessness, client-server separation, cacheability, and a uniform interface, all designed to ensure scalability, reliability, and independent evolution of client and server components.