Comment by gxs

Maybe if the headline said Stop using REST for state synchronization in these scenarios, I would have been on board

Dismissing something outright is usually the wrong answer, and for the same reason I did read the article

Using REST for synchronization isn’t some huge transgression and is fine in a lot of scenarios, silly in others.

Keeping record updates that a user makes in one system in sync with a single record in another system that uses those updates is fine

Trying to sync giant databases in bulk on the other hand might not be