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William Vambenepe
Personal blog · stage.vambenepe.com/archivesprogrammingbusiness
William Vambenepe writes Cloud Comedy, Cloud Tragedy, a personal blog at stage.vambenepe.com about programming and business. Since 2009, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “Are you the dumb money in the Cloud?”. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link William Vambenepe's blog for history of web services and HTTP over SOAP, for a view on PaaS as a hobbyist platform, and for cloud cost commentary.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Are you the dumb money in the Cloud?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-10-22
What Hacker News says?
searching "HTTP over SOAP" finds a few leads: Tim Bray, 2004, "HTTP over SOAP!?!?!?": https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/05/01/SRRH Erik Wilde, 2008, "HTTP over SOAP over HTTP": https://dret.typepad.com/dretblog/2008/11/http-over-soap-ove... William Vambenepe, 2008, "WS Resource Access working group starting at W3C": http://stage.vambenepe.com/archives/436 Here are some of the specs: Web Services Transfer…
Comment linking /archives/436
on “WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in the browser”Submitted The War On RSS as a story · 256 points
HN discussionFor more on why this makes sense, see: "PaaS as a satisfying and success-ready hobbyist platform" (with Google App Engine as the primary example) http://stage.vambenepe.com/archives/1014
Comment linking /archives/1014
on “Google App Engine update: performance improvements & new admin tools”Submitted Amazon proves that REST doesn’t matter for Cloud APIs as a story · 39 points
HN discussionI liked William Vambenepe's comment on that -- "Are you the dumb money in the Cloud?" http://stage.vambenepe.com/archives/2061
Comment linking /archives/2061
on “Exploiting Hardware Heterogeneity within the Same Instance Type of Amazon EC2”Submitted The REST bubble as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted AJAX+REST as the latest architectural mirage as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Are you the dumb money in the Cloud? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On resisting shiny objects (blog vs. Google+) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cloud APIs are like military parades as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Square peg, REST hole as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cloud + proprietary software as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Redeeming the service description document as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted REST + RDF, finally a practical solution? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted DMTF publishes draft of Cloud API standard as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Backward-looking API ToS vs. forwarding-looking API usage as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted William Vambenepe — Partial resource update, one more time as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted REST in practice for IT and Cloud management (part 3: wrap-up) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Native “SSH” on Windows via WS-Management as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Look Ma, no hypervisor as a story · 1 points
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