Compliant APIs with Webmachine As web applications continue to move towards rich client-side experiences, the relevance of server-side rendered HTML diminishes. This is compounded by mobile applications consuming similar APIs as rich single page applications. This talk will discuss building lightweight standards compliant APIs with Webmachine, a REST toolkit written in Ruby. Webmachine provides a syntax which makes it easy to reason about your applications, while also providing an alternative to more heavyweight solutions such as Rails.