These days, REST has become truly fashionable. No matter what system, product or service we look at, everything claims to offer a "REST API". But as is often the case with technical concepts that gain acceptance, many instances just stick the label on something that really doesn't meet expectations.
If you pay any attention to software technology trends at all, there is no way you can have missed the “microservices” architecture approach, which seems to be the cure to every problem anyone ever had. But (Micro-)services, bounded contexts, components, modules, classes, structs and records, procedures and functions – whatever structuring [...]