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Duncan Cragg
Personal blog · duncan-cragg.org/blogwebprogramming
Duncan Cragg writes What Not How, a personal blog at duncan-cragg.org about web and programming. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “The REST dialogues”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Duncan Cragg's blog in discussions of REST versus RPC and the REST maturity model. The comments argue that REST is more robust than RPC, but they do not judge the linked posts directly.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The REST dialogues3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-01-08
What Hacker News says?
It is amazing to me that almost nobody here actually questioned the wisdom of throwing out the time tested benefits of robustness of REST in exchange for that which REST was created to eliminate; the fragility of RPC. And all because using RPC is easier in the moment (vs. over time.) This reminds of of the old saw "Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it." If you are unaware of the benefits, here are a just…
Comment linking /blog/post/getting-data-rest-dialogues/
on “Twirp: A new RPC framework for Go”Submitted The REST dialogues as a story · 6 points
HN discussionNo, REST is not poorly defined, and there is no such thing as a "personal definition". It's not the word's fault that is has come to be abused as a buzzword. It's the fault of the people who abuse it. Both your examples already fulfill many constraints of a RESTful design, but this makes it level 2 in the maturity model. So far, it's "only" an HTTP API, you need more to reach level 3, mandatory for REST. My points o…
Comment linking /blog/post/getting-data-rest-dialogues/
on “Ask HN: What is REST exactly?”