Contents tagged with Hypermedia
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Service Discovery : Redux
Yesterday, I had a thought. It didn't fit into a tweet so wrote a few paragraphs. I was very pleased with myself, finally getting round to writing again after a few months off. That was, until two different people who I respect highly, told me I was wrong. That part sucked. Continue reading...
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Service Discovery, The Easy Way
Here's a thought that wouldn't fit into a tweet and will serve the purpose of breaking my blogging dry spell. With all the attention that microservices is currently receiving I regularly hear people talking about service discovery. When trying to co-ordinate multiple different services working together, it is critical to be able to dynamically configure which services will perform what services, for which consumers. Continue reading...
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REST Agent - Lessons learned in building generic hypermedia clients
Several years ago when I was beginning to work on a large hyper media driven client, I recognized frequently recurring patterns and decided that I could raise the level of abstraction from an HTTP client to a hypermedia client. It took about a year to realize that it was not as good an idea as I had first thought. Continue reading...
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Single purpose media types and caching
My recent post asking people to refrain from creating more generic hypermedia types sparked some good conversation on twitter between @mamund, @cometaj2, @mogsie, @inadarei and others. Whilst thinking some more on the potential benefits of single purpose media types versus generic hypermedia types, realized there is a correlation between single purpose media types and representation lifetimes. I thought it might be worth adding to the conversation, but there is no way I could fit it in 140 chars, so I’m posting it here. Continue reading...
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Please, no more generic hypermedia types
This opinion has been stewing for a couple of years now, but following an excellent conversation I had with Ted Young the other evening at the API Craft San Francisco event, I think it is time to have more discussion around this subject. Continue reading...
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Self-descriptive, isn't. Don't assume anything.
With the recent surge of interest in hypermedia APIs I am beginning to see the term “self-descriptive” thrown around quite frequently. Unfortunately, the meaning of self-descriptive is not exactly self-descriptive, leading to misuse of the term. Continue reading...
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