1Roy Thomas Fielding's thesis Architectural Styles and the Design of
2Network-based Software Architectures describes Representational State Transfer
3which comprises several core concepts:
4- Resource: A conceptual mapping to one or more entities.
5- Representation: An instance of a resource at a given point in time.
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7Async::REST models these abstractions as closely and practically as possible and
8serves as a basis for building asynchronous web clients.
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