1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a service application of at least one computing device, a request including a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) method and a network resource locator identifying an operation that is associated with an instance of a resource; associating a first portion of the network resource locator indicating the instance of the resource with a second portion of the network resource locator indicating the operation; and in response to the associating the first portion with the second portion, invoking the operation on the instance utilizing the HTTP method based on a state of the instance.