# REST Api Design - Resource Modeling

DevFeed: [REST Api Design - Resource Modeling](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/rest-api-design-resource-modeling-21278.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://juri.dev/blog/2015/11/rest-api-design/>)

Published: 2015-11-02T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Juri Strumpflohner](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/juri-strumpflohner.md>)

Topics: [REST API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rest-api.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [CRUD](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/crud.md>), [JSON](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/json.md>), [client](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/client.md>), [payload](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/payload.md>), [backends](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/backends.md>)

Tags: [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [api-design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api-design.md>), [business-logic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/business-logic.md>), [json](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/json.md>), [payload](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/payload.md>), [request](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/request.md>), [rest](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rest.md>), [rest-api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rest-api.md>), [state](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/state.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial discusses REST API resource modeling. It compares fine-grained CRUD resources with a coarser Posts collection, explaining trade-offs involving chatty client interactions, request payloads, endpoint design, and the placement of business logic.

## Source excerpt

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