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Ben Morris
Personal blog · ben-morris.comprogrammingsystems
Ben Morris's personal blog at ben-morris.com covers programming and systems. Since 2015, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Why REST is not a silver bullet for service integration”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Ben Morris's posts on .NET and service integration, such as why WCF isn't supported in .NET Core and why REST is not a silver bullet. Comments are mostly bare links or factual citations.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Architect specialising in scalable cloud-native architectures, agile governance, data platforms, systems integrations, and SaaS-based delivery.
Most-linked posts?
- Why REST is not a silver bullet for service integration3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-01-24
What Hacker News says?
You are correct WCF will not be an officially supported part of .net core. I believe an open source port has been started though. gRPC is meant to replace it. https://www.ben-morris.com/why-isnt-wcf-supported-in-net-cor...
Comment linking /why-isnt-wcf-supported-in-net-core/
on “.NET Core gRPC”Submitted Why refactoring code is almost always better than rewriting it (2012) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionOriginal article on author's own site: http://www.ben-morris.com/why-rest-is-not-a-silver-bullet-fo...
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on “Why REST is not a silver bullet for service integration”Submitted Swagger is not WSDL for REST. It’s much less useful than that (2017) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionDirect link: http://www.ben-morris.com/why-rest-is-not-a-silver-bullet-fo...
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on “Why REST is not a silver bullet for service integration”Submitted Azure Search is not ElasticSearch “in the cloud” as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Most software architecture diagrams are useless as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The RESTafarian flame wars – common disagreements over REST API design as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why REST is not a silver bullet for service integration as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Naming things is easy. Abstraction is much harder as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Make Architecture Decisions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why building AI-powered agents is so challenging. For now as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Minimal Viable Architecture and the case for up-front design as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The generic repository is just a lazy anti-pattern (2013) as a story · 1 points
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