Why are RESTful Applications easier to scale

Question

I always read that one reason to chose a RESTful architecture is (among others) better scalability for Webapplications with a high load.

Why is that? One reason I ca

Answer 1

I think what Tom said is very accurate, however another problem with scalability is the barrier to change upon scaling. So, one of the biggest tenants of REST as it was intended is HyperMedia. Basically, the server will own the paths and pass them to the client at runtime. This allows you to change your code without breaking existing clients. However, you will find most implementations of REST to simply be RPC hiding behind the guise of REST...which is not scalable.