Musings on the next API technology

GraphQL, RPC, and bespoke clients are all pretty plausible ways forward to a post-REST world, but whichever we choose, we shouldn’t forget the lessons that REST taught us in that convention and widespread consistency are powerful things. If we do adopt something new, we should aim to make it as ubiquitous as possible so that we don’t worsen developer experience by fracturing technologies. Unfortunately though, realistically that might mean just sticking to REST.