tylerdiaz
Regarding writing interfaces for the service, that's fine too. It's just an easier way to integrate with a service. But there's a big difference between writing a service interface and a library that implements the service's functionality.
We do have plenty of open source services (e.g: Zookeeper, Redis, Kubernetes), but few product level like Stripe/Auth0. Yet there's a lot of duplicated effort in things like writing ecommerce/forum/blog/geolocation/social software. I wonder why we don't have more of these.
Ask HN: Who is working on services?
With the widespread adoption of containers as an easy way to develop and deploy applications, should we be thinking of open-source solutions to system problems in terms of services instead of language-specific libraries? What are some of the problems keeping that from happening?I've seen some great SASS products like Auth0/Algolia/Pusher/Stream. But if instead of working on Devise (Ruby auth),...
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