{"id":16,"date":"2002-07-31T03:37:00","date_gmt":"2002-07-31T07:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/wp\/?p=56"},"modified":"2002-07-31T03:37:00","modified_gmt":"2002-07-31T07:37:00","slug":"rest-is-academic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2002\/07\/rest-is-academic\/","title":{"rendered":"REST is Academic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;theory monster&#8221; rears its ugly head again.  Clemens Vasters writes <em><a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0108971\/2002\/07\/30.html#a50\">&#8220;Hence, the &#8220;I love HTTP&#8221; discussion (aka REST) is solely academic and of very little relevance for complex real-world designs now and even less moving forward &#8212; methinks.&#8221;<\/a><\/em>.  REST is the furthest thing from theory in existence; it is 100% practice.  It is what you get when you closely study how the Web works <em>today<\/em>.  In contrast, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2002\/ws\/arch\/\">&#8220;Web services architecture&#8221;<\/a> is almost entirely theory in the context in which it&#8217;s being used (the Internet).  It, and its implicit resemblance to the OMA, has never been deployed at a scale even approaching the Web.  Perhaps it&#8217;s worth repeating; The Web is a giant leap forward in distributed computing architectures.  Ignore it at your peril.<\/p>\n\n<p>For many years, people have talked about how normal ACID\/2PC transaction semantics are <a href=\"http:\/\/jeffsutherland.org\/oopsla97\/dan.html\">unsuitable for use on the Internet<\/a>.  That is still the case.  We need to rethink what a transaction is on the Web, and I can guarantee you that when we do, it will be implementable as an HTTP extension.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The &#8220;theory monster&#8221; rears its ugly head again. Clemens Vasters writes &#8220;Hence, the &#8220;I love HTTP&#8221; discussion (aka REST) is solely academic and of very little relevance for complex real-world designs now and even less moving forward &#8212; methinks.&#8221;. REST is the furthest thing from theory in existence; it is 100% practice. It is what [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}