> He constructed his own interface in order to complain about it Yes, it is contrived, but it faithfully represents many examples I've seen in the real world.

> He constructed his own interface in order to complain about it Yes, it is contrived, but it faithfully represents many examples I've seen in the real world. > Also, what's with the REST rant? I don't think I understand how that's linked. Why not? It's clearly explained. The typical REST API (as opposed to the well designed REST API) is just Active Record over HTTP: /something/:id called in N+1 loops. And this emerges for the same reason as it does in the Active Record pattern; the 'central abstraction' offered by REST is mapping every resource to a URL, as opposed to mapping every row to an object.