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Alessandro Nadalin
Personal blog · odino.orgprogrammingwebsystems
Alessandro Nadalin's personal blog at odino.org covers programming, web and systems. Since 2011, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Only one comment, in a thread titled 'The S in Rest', discusses the post's claims about REST and HTTP caching. HN readers link it in discussions of REST API design.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Blog of Alex, technologist in Dubai: writing about Service Oriented Architectures, web APIs and development teams.
What Hacker News says?
Jonahx your response summarizes my feelings pretty well. To add to this, I found the post perplexing considering that REST also has cache constraints as described at http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch... . This makes some statements in the article strange. For example: "Very rarely will a RESTful URL specify an Expires header . . ." Leaving aside that Expires is not the only cache header ht…
Comment linking /rest-better-http-cache/
on “The S in Rest”Submitted Show HN: Shell scripting just got a whole lot easier with ABS preview 2 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Browsers rest too much, REST lesser as a story · 2 points
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