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What is HATEOAS and when would you use it?
Tests whether you understand HATEOAS means the response embeds the next valid actions as links so clients discover state transitions dynamically instead of hardcoding URLs -- and whether you can admit it's rarely worth the complexity outside public hypermedia APIs.
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