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World Congress 2025 • Aug 20, 2025 • Session details

REST in Peace? What does the API protocol of the future look like? Or do we have it already?

Simon Auer

Is REST holding your applications back with high overhead? Discover how blending REST, GraphQL, and gRPC creates the ultimate high-performance API blueprint of the future.

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The enduring legacy of REST APIs

The persistent dominance of REST APIs despite broad technological advancements since the early 2000s.

#2 about 2 min

Challenges and limitations of REST APIs

Common development pain points include over-fetching, undefined structures, request overhead, and poor real-time support.

#3 about 3 min

Clarifying API technologies and future scope

Essential terminology constraints and the expected scope of API technologies over the next decade.

#4 about 2 min

Core concepts and categories of APIs

Key operational differences between resource-oriented, procedure-oriented, and server-driven application interfaces.

#5 about 3 min

Strengths and gaps of the REST protocol

The core advantages and operational gaps of REST necessary to define future protocol requirements.

#6 about 3 min

Addressing data query flexibility with GraphQL

How GraphQL solves data fetching issues while introducing operational complexity and potential performance pitfalls.

#7 about 3 min

High performance communication protocols using gRPC

Leveraging gRPC and binary serialization for high-efficiency remote procedure calls across distributed microservices.

#8 about 2 min

Extracting application architecture concepts from Firebase

Key architecture takeaways like offline persistence, automatic scaling, and declarative permissions from serverless databases.

#9 about 2 min

Creating the ultimate future API wishlist

Synthesizing desired developer constraints involving performance, security, and next-generation artificial intelligence capabilities.

#10 about 1 min

Choosing the right API protocol today

Practical guidelines on when to deploy REST, GraphQL, or gRPC based on specific application architectures.

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