Master Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud - Introduction to RESTful Web Services

The video introduces REST, a concept coined by Roy Fielding, emphasizing its use of HTTP for web services. It explains HTTP's role in web interactions, detailing request and response formats, methods, and status codes. RESTful services focus on resources, assigning URIs to them, and using HTTP methods for operations. The video also discusses resource representation and the lack of a standard service definition in REST, mentioning tools like Swagger for defining services.

How does REST handle the representation of resources?

What is the significance of HTTP in RESTful web services?

What are some service definition formats mentioned for RESTful services?