There are plenty of discussions and comparisons of API architectures using REST versus SOAP. But which is a better approach when building cloud native services and applications?

SOAP is really focused on the services or the end points rather than resources, which means that although REST and SOAP are theoretically not mutually exclusive, they are in practice.

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In the ongoing contention between SOAP and REST as a Web services protocol, many developers appear to drawn to REST.The latest release of Ruby on Rails, the lightweight development framework which ...

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As APIs continue to proliferate, so do their types: REST, SOAP, GraphQL, Kafka-based APIs, Publish/Subscribe Pattern-Based APIs, Remote Procedure Call protocols and Webhooks, among them.

So, perhaps not surprisingly, SOAP started losing some ground to a more lightweight and Web-friendly architectural style called Representational State Transfer (REST), which complements SOAP.