What do you know about RESTful web services ?

Problem statement: What is RESTful web services?

REST stands for Representational State Transfer. REST is defined as the stateless client-server architectural style for developing application accessed over the web. When web services use HTTP methods to implement the concept of REST architecture, then it is known as RESTful Web services. In this architectural style, data and functionality are served as resources and is accessed by URI (Uniform Resource Identifiers).

RESTful web services enable web services to work best by inducing properties like

1. Performance
2. Scalability
3. Modifiability