[Update: since these benchmarks were run, performance of Restify has improved substantially to where its performance is on a par with the others. I have not got around to updating the charts in this article to reflect that]. In the cloud today, performance is more important than ever because it can be so easily correlated [...]
Archive of entries posted on March 2012
Opinionated (RPC) APIs vs RESTful APIs
If you are not already aware, a few years ago there was some debate on the Internet as to when it was ok to call an API “RESTful”. I won’t go into all the details, but suffice it to say that the well-respected originator of the term REST did not agree with the way his [...]