REST (Representational State Transfer) is an architectural style for networked applications in which clients act on resources identified by URLs using a small set of standard HTTP operations such as GET, POST, PUT, PATCH and DELETE, with stateless requests that each carry all the information needed to be processed. In Namazu Elements, REST is the basis of the platform's public API: components and stored data are exposed as addressable resources that client applications and integrations create, read, update and delete over HTTP, typically exchanging JSON representations.