Yep, you are right - I think our previous implementation would be better described as a &quot;typical HTTP Rails JSON API.&quot;  As I briefly alluded in the article, we actually initially had a hypertext-driven API using RFC 6570 URI templates, but had to eventually change designs to increase performance for mobile apps.  Payloads needed to be smaller and we couldn&#x27;t afford the extra requests necessary to traverse the endpoints.<p>But yes, I agree, what is commonly called &quot;REST&quot; isn&#x27;t usually.