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Since it was created, WordPress has always had a way to communicate with your website remotely — including different blogging platforms and desktop clients — in order to interact with it. As one of the early software platforms involved, the XML-RPC API system is comprised of the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) protocol and the Extensible Markup Language (XML) for encoding its calls with the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) used as the transport protocol.

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What is Elasticsearch?

Elasticsearch is a distributed, full-text, open-source search engine. It provides multi-tenant capabilities in analyzing aggregate data types from sources like Logstash or Kibana. This application stores and indexes information, which can then be queried for specific data. It returns useful details about a particular program, log analysis, application performance data, or other information. 

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What is Elasticsearch?

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Elasticsearch is a distributed, open-source, full-text search engine which provides multi-tenant capabilities for analyzing multiple data types. It stores and indexes data shipped from sources like Logstash or Kibana. Elasticsearch can then be queried for specific data to return useful information about a particular application, log analysis, application performance data, or other information. 

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What is REST?

The REST acronym is defined as a “REpresentational State Transfer” and is designed to take advantage of existing HTTP protocols when used for Web APIs. It is very flexible in that it is not tied to resources or methods and has the ability to handle different calls and data formats. Because REST API is not constrained to an XML format like SOAP, it can return multiple other formats depending on what is needed. If a service adheres to this style, it is considered a “RESTful” application. REST allows components to access and manage functions within another application.

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