[dreamfactory2]

> Services are naturally centered arounds verbs (commands and queries) and not nouns (resources)

Can you qualify that? Queries are presumably queries on resources, and which commands did you have in mind apart from creating or updating resources?

[cfallin]

Not OP, but a thought anyway: these worldviews are sort of duals of each other, IMHO. You can consider a "noun" to be one instance of a verb's application, i.e., an action. For example, "send an email" or "purchase an item", both verbs, translate to creating new nouns representing (respectively) an email in my Outbox or a transaction. The advantage of the noun worldview is that the nouns can describe the history of verbs and the resulting application state, e.g., I can look at and manage the whole ledger of transactions, whereas verbs are just ad-hoc manipulations of that state.