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RE: Update your STEEM apps! Big changes coming for 3rd party developers

in #steemitdev7 years ago

I'm just trying to speak factually about what REST actually is. As you said, many millennials don't understand it at all.

If you want RPC then you certainly don't want or need REST. No need to defend that decision.

As I said, I'm not personally a fan of RPC because, IMO, it leads to tight client/server coupling. I wrote articles like this five years ago explaining why I prefer REST over something like SOAP because SOAP leads to tight coupling. I bring that up because, to me, many RPC approaches remind me too much of WSDL and SOAP. People start building tooling around them, client generation stuff, etc and before long, we're back where we started with servers and clients tightly coupled. The Internet has worked really well in many ways by keeping clients and servers loosely coupled.

I'm not trying to bust your balls, man. 😊 If what you have works well for you and will continue to scale and meet the needs of the things you'll be doing in the future with an appropriate amount of loose coupling, then fantastic!

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