[HN Gopher] URI-Based Integration
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       URI-Based Integration
        
       Author : HieronymusBosch
       Score  : 42 points
       Date   : 2021-10-27 20:36 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.tbray.org)
        
       | rektide wrote:
       | Oh snap. There was a pretty broad dismissal of URLs making real
       | inroads in the world in the recent Roy Fielding's Misappropriated
       | ReST Dissertation[1]. Everyone seemed to agree that this core,
       | fundamental part of HATEOS was basically dead, unloved, & going
       | no-where, was my read.
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       | I mentioned Marcel Weiher (@mpweiher) In-process ReST[2] in that
       | thread[3], and admitted indeed this is something we don't see a
       | lot of. But I personally think it's enormously worth doing.
       | Rather than having entities implicitly be of some entity, merely
       | floating identifiers, I think there's enormous value in having
       | infrastructure & systems that refer to each other the same way
       | clients refer to information... via urls, as real resources.
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       | Which is what Tim Bray got Lambdas doing, way back when. And it's
       | paying off well. Tim Bray, trying to cite Tim Berners-Lee, pulled
       | this choice quote:
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       | > _" On the Web, a resource is a unit of information or
       | service."_
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       | Tim's doing a good job talking to a lot of hopes I still have. If
       | anyone's curious for more, I cannot recommend enough TimBL's
       | "URIs - Axioms of Web Architecture"[4], which is still the only
       | sensible basis I've heard for online information. Thanks for this
       | incredibly timely share @HB.
       | 
       | > _" Any resource anywhere can be given a URI" "Any resource of
       | significance should be given a URI."_
       | 
       | has indeed flowed well into Tim Bray's conclusion:
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       | > _" But to be honest, all of that comes more or less for free
       | once you decide that everything you might want to integrate is a
       | resource and thus should be identified by a Uniform Resource
       | Identifier. I recommend this design pattern."_
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       | [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29009729
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       | [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21560626
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       | [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29014181
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       | [4] https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Axioms.html
        
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