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REST is great for decoupling but as generally implemented it adds too much latency for some types of distributed computing. It also makes distributed transacti
by patrickmay 12y ago
REST is great for decoupling but as generally implemented it adds too much latency for some types of distributed computing. It also makes distributed transactions difficult to manage.
Jimi addressed a lot of those problems in a technically interesting way. The protocol itself is language agnostic, but the implementation took advantage of Java's mobile code capabilities.
- rdtsc 12y ago> It also makes distributed transactions difficult to manage. Wonder if the typical REST-ful answer would be to make yet another service on top that manages distributed transactions and talks to a variety of other services. Sort of like APIs wrapping another APIs which wrap other APIs...