{"id":212,"date":"2004-12-05T12:32:48","date_gmt":"2004-12-05T19:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp\/?p=212"},"modified":"2004-12-05T12:32:48","modified_gmt":"2004-12-05T19:32:48","slug":"restians-unite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/2004\/12\/05\/restians-unite\/","title":{"rendered":"RESTians, Unite!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just on the heels of talking to a TechTarget reporter on Friday about 2004 and the emergence of REST, comes this little tidbit (culled from <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/m040601\">m040601&#8217;s del.icio.us<\/a> links):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s nice to see the pains that Amazon takes to make it clear that, when it says &#8220;web services&#8221; it doesn&#8217;t just mean SOAP-based web services, but REST too. According to Jeff Barr, Amazon&#8217;s web services evangelist, 80% of the developers using AWS prefer the REST interface. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xml.com\/pub\/a\/2004\/08\/04\/tr-xml.html\">link<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The point I&#8217;m making here &#8211; and made to Preston on Friday &#8211; is not that SOAP does not have its place, nor that it&#8217;s not appropriate for many web services scenarios. In other words, I&#8217;m not making the sort of binary argument I&#8217;ve railed against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/sogrady\/archives\/000241.html\">previously<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But I am opposed to the REST stack being either ignored or portrayed as some sort of Web services second-class citizen, when the available evidence indicates that it&#8217;s the approach of choice for a great many developers out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just on the heels of talking to a TechTarget reporter on Friday about 2004 and the emergence of REST, comes this little tidbit (culled from m040601&#8217;s del.icio.us links): It&#8217;s nice to see the pains that Amazon takes to make it clear that, when it says &#8220;web services&#8221; it doesn&#8217;t just mean SOAP-based web services, but<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trends-observations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}