In this interview, Leonard Richardson, creator of the Richardson Maturity Model for RESTful web services discussesthe history of REST, interoperability in APIs and his impression of newer approaches such as GraphQL.

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Leonard Richardson, a veteran programmer and the creator of the Richardson Maturity Model (RMM), discusses the evolution of web APIs, the role of hypermedia, and the industry's shift from XML to JSON. He explores why many web APIs stopped at level 2 of the RMM and critiques the impact of business models on the adoption of advanced hypermedia features. Richardson also shares his thoughts on the move from RESTful APIs to GraphQL and other modern technologies.

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