# Grokking REST

By Ben Ramsey

- **Date:** November 19, 2010
- **Event:** Memphis PHP User Group
- **Venue:** Phoenix Communications
- **City:** Memphis, TN, US

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REST has become a hip buzzword of Web 2.0. But what makes an application RESTful? In this talk, Ben Ramsey reintroduces REST, uncovering each constraint that forms REST's principles. Ramsey explains how REST is a style for network-based software applications, emphasizing scalability and efficiency through separation of concerns and taking advantage of the Web as a platform for rich applications.