The widespread use of ASCII encoding formats like JSON and rest may be killing server performance. A wide variety of emerging binary formats offer significantly improved performance for processing ...

With the RESTful API, the user cannot directly set the number of wins, losses or ties. The client can only use a POST invocation to increment values one at a time. This is not an idempotent function, ...

Solr has a HTTP/JSON-based API. However, it isn’t exactly a REST API because it doesn’t really follow any of the rules for a well-defined REST interface. I whine about this sometimes.