{"id":85,"date":"2008-07-28T02:38:20","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T06:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steve.vinoski.net\/blog\/?p=85"},"modified":"2008-07-28T12:00:41","modified_gmt":"2008-07-28T16:00:41","slug":"spot-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.vinoski.net\/blog\/2008\/07\/28\/spot-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Spot On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.iona.com\/newcomer\/archives\/000572.html\">Eric Newcomer gives us his take<\/a> on my recent articles (<a href=\"\/blog\/internet-computing-columns\/#2008-1\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"\/blog\/internet-computing-columns\/#2008-2\">2<\/a>, <a href=\"\/blog\/internet-computing-columns\/#2008-3\">3<\/a>, <a href=\"\/blog\/internet-computing-columns\/#2008-4\">4<\/a>) and blog postings (<a href=\"\/blog\/2008\/07\/01\/convenience-over-correctness\/\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"\/blog\/2008\/07\/07\/soa-elitism\/\">2<\/a>, <a href=\"\/blog\/2008\/07\/11\/protocol-buffers-no-big-deal\/\">3<\/a>, <a href=\"\/blog\/2008\/07\/13\/protocol-buffers-leaky-rpc\/\">4<\/a>) about RPC, REST, and programming languages:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Anyway, after carefully reading the article and blog entries, I believe Steve is not against RPC per se. He wants people to <em>think<\/em> before just automatically using it because it&#8217;s convenient.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Exactly!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Also spot on are the following postings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dehora.net\/journal\/2008\/07\/25\/patterns-of-web-architecture\/\">Bill de h\u00d3ra: <em>Patterns of Web Architecture<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Three postings from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stucharlton.com\/blog\/\">Stu Charlton<\/a>:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stucharlton.com\/blog\/archives\/000553.html\"><em>Convenience, Correctness, and Network Interactions<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stucharlton.com\/blog\/archives\/000554.html\"><em>Can technology progress?<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stucharlton.com\/blog\/archives\/000555.html\"><em>On changing industry mindsets<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The beauty common to all these postings is the breadth, depth, and variety of thinking and reasoning they present. There&#8217;s a lot to read, but if you&#8217;re interested in critical thinking about the design and construction of distributed systems I encourage you to read them all the way through, including the comments, and to follow the links they offer as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Newcomer gives us his take on my recent articles (1, 2, 3, 4) and blog postings (1, 2, 3, 4) about RPC, REST, and programming languages: Anyway, after carefully reading the article and blog entries, I believe Steve is not against RPC per se. He wants people to think before just automatically using it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,21,10,100,15,8],"tags":[156,153,146,179,150,144],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-distributed-systems","category-rest","category-rpc","category-soa","category-ws","tag-design","tag-distributed-systems","tag-rest","tag-rpc","tag-soa","tag-ws"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.vinoski.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.vinoski.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.vinoski.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.vinoski.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.vinoski.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/steve.vinoski.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93,"href":"https:\/\/steve.vinoski.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.vinoski.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.vinoski.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.vinoski.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}