Amazon proves that REST doesn’t matter for Cloud APIs

Re:Amazon proves that REST doesn’t matter for Cloud APIs by sriramk on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @05:03AM (#1978580)

The OP is completely correct. I designed a bunch of the Windows Azure APIs - we spent a lot of time making sure they were RESTful. Looking back now, I think it was a big waste of time. Almost everyone uses the API through some custom library and I doubt it would have mattered if we hadn't taken the trouble.

I'm involved in some API design again and I sent out a mail saying that any discussions involving whether option A or option B is the more 'rest-ful' thing to do will get smacked down :)

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Re:Amazon proves that REST doesn’t matter for Cloud APIs by aaronbrethorst on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @06:06AM (#1978706)

Hey Sriram - When are we getting coffee? I'll code against Amazon's gnarly API because I have to, not because I want to. Flickr's another great example of this. I mean, seriously, look at some of the calls, here: http://www.flickr.com/services/api/

I think it's way more logical to POST a photo_id to http://flickr.com/galleries/123456/photos than to POST to http://www.flickr.com/services/rest/?method=flickr.galleries... (note: HN is truncating the displayed link.)

Then again, I don't think I'm in the target demographic for Azure.

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Re:Amazon proves that REST doesn’t matter for Cloud APIs by rimantas on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @06:59AM (#1978797)

So you don't care about those writing custom libraries?

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