Re:Show HN: WebRPC – a simple alternative to REST and SOAP
by gk_brown on Thursday October 22, 2015 @08:52AM
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That sounds cool. WebRPC isn't meant to be an "everything to everyone" solution. It's main advantage is simplicity and low overhead. It allows you to quickly and easily build a service tier that is consumable by multiple clients. But if your requirements scale beyond what WebRPC provides, Thrift sounds like a great option.
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Re:Show HN: WebRPC – a simple alternative to REST and SOAP
by stephenr on Saturday October 24, 2015 @01:29AM
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Thrift is such a broken mess I willingly opted instead to fork and update a Java project that exposes xml over http.
Thrift must have been written by people who though SOAP was too easy to use and that developer lives should be made harder.
Re:Show HN: WebRPC – a simple alternative to REST and SOAP
by malandrew on Monday October 26, 2015 @03:26PM
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Completely agree that the thrift stuff is a mess, which is why we only used the one interesting part, the IDL, for our system. These days, proto3 would be viable, but wasn't feature rich enough at the time for our needs when we were evaluating options.