Web Services

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Never Version Your API: Lesson Learned from Web Services and REST

The API is the bookmark, which never changes.

ZapThink Ten Years Ago: The Pros & Cons of Web Services

“While we believe it is very likely that the lower-level Web Services specifications such as SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI will be agreed upon, the more business-critical higher level specifications dealing with security, reliability, transaction control, and business process will be pulled in many different directions. We’re thus faced with the possibility that the open nature [...]

The API is Dead! Long Live the API!

The point to the programmable Web is to make software more Web-like

Agile Architectures with Web Services & REST One-Day Course — April 5, 2012

Agile Architectures with Web Services & REST One-Day Course — Jan. 12, 2012

Architecting Beyond Cloud Computing’s Horseless Carriage

Factor in elasticity & we must have new approaches to architecting

How I Became a REST “Convert”

SOA can be done well in practice without using Web Services in any significant manner

Functional vs. Interface Granularity: Still Powerful Ideas

Granularity hasn’t gotten the respect that it deserves

Does REST Provide Deep Interoperability?

Peer-to-peer Deep Interoperability is the price of admission.

Is the Web Losing Ground on Freedom, Interoperability?

It would be great news if we had deep interoperability

Where’s our Deep Interoperability?

Standards alone never guaranteed interoperability

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