https://medium.com/helium-mvc/php-microservices-creating-a-basic-restful-crud-api-dabb1a1941a5 > One of the most prominent ways to create access to a microservice today is through a RESTful API. REST has great advantages over other protocols like sockets that include: > Restful over HTTP normally breaks down into 4 types of requests of GET, POST, PUT and DELETE. There are other request types that are outside of the scope of this article. The requests can be described as: