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blog.dreamfactory.com is the company blog at blog.dreamfactory.com, writing about data and programming. Since 2013, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-03, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link DreamFactory's blog posts on exposing SQL databases as REST APIs and on generating API client code with swagger-codegen. The comments cite these posts without judging the writing.
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.
Data archiving is a critical but underappreciated process that leadership and IT professionals need to prioritize in order to ensure peak business efficacy.
Most-linked posts?
- /add-a-rest-api-to-any-sql-db-in-minutes2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-09-21
What Hacker News says?
> Human-readable text, file paths, SQL statements, and others are all conceptually different, and this should be represented as different types at the language level. Objective-Smalltalk[1] has Polymorphic Identifiers[2][3], which are URIs used as identifiers in the language. So that handles file paths and web addresses. SQL is not solved directly, but XPath can be encoded in the URI and there are mappings from rela…
Comment linking /add-a-rest-api-to-any-sql-db-in-minutes
on “Why Is Swift's String API So Hard?”Submitted Extending Git with a Custom Command as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis is quite useful to have. Several tech oriented companies do automatically create a data service when a new database / table needs to be exposed. No reason why Postgresql cannot do the same. I'd imagine it looks something like this when it is finished - http://blog.dreamfactory.com/add-a-rest-api-to-any-sql-db-in... . The concept is similar although I've not used it personally myself. Given that it is open sourc…
Comment linking /add-a-rest-api-to-any-sql-db-in-minutes
on “Need Postgresql HTTP API Extension”Submitted Create a Geofence API Using the Haversine Formula, PHP, and DreamFactory as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'll simply link to a blog post I recently did for Dreamfactory that also contains my experience as a Platform Architect with swagger-codegen in production http://blog.dreamfactory.com/generating-dreamfactory-client-...
Comment linking /generating-dreamfactory-client-sdks-based-on-swagger-api-definitions
on “Ask HN: Compare AutoRest, Apimatic and Swagger Codegen”Submitted Create a MySQL REST API in Minutes Using DreamFactory as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted DreamFactory 2.3 released, PHP 7, Cassandra, Redis as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open source REST API for any SQL database as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted More Microapps, Less Work as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sending Slack Notifications from Your Laravel Application as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Micro Apps: An Emerging Trend as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted DreamFactory 3.0 Released as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Create an Almost No Code Database-Backed Web UI with DreamFactory and Tabulator as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Get This Seven Simple REST Client Examples for Retrieving API Data as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating a Geocoder Service Using DreamFactory and the Google Maps Geocoding API as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why DreamFactory Chose Laravel as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted AWS Mobile Backend with the DreamFactory Bitnami Stack as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open Source REST for MongoHQ as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted NoSQL as a Service as a story · 1 points
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