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These days, it’s practically impossible to talk about REST without also talking about HTTP — The two concepts are tightly intertwined; in fact, REST and HTTP 1.1 were <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer" target="_blank">developed in parallel</a> by the same person (Roy Fielding). The verbs in HTTP (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE…) make it ideal for performing the kinds of stateless atomic operations required by REST.