Amazon Kinesis Available For All Customers

Re:Amazon Kinesis Available For All Customers by 6cxs2hd6 on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @09:40AM (#6921301)

I wish Amazon hadn't given up even trying to do RESTful APIs. Nowadays they just shrug and bang it out RPC style (payload is JSON instead of XML, but the song remains the same).

e.g. How do you delete a stream?

Is it a DELETE request for, say, /streams/<stream-id> ?

No, it's a POST to "/" with an entity:

  {
      "StreamName": "string"
  }

Sigh.

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Re:Amazon Kinesis Available For All Customers by mfenniak on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @12:52PM (#6922513)

Amazon success is a strong indicator: RESTful APIs don't really matter. You can build a very successful business without focusing on the format of your APIs, as long as you build something valuable.

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Re:Amazon Kinesis Available For All Customers by atwebb on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @03:28PM (#6923702)

It helps if you're already one of the biggest players. A smaller company may be able to make a more attractive offering with REST.

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Re:Amazon Kinesis Available For All Customers by dalore on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @11:27AM (#6921957)

Not all proxies support DELETE and PUT. But you're right, it should support both.

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