New answers tagged api-design
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REST API with swappable backends
Your last 2 paragraphs are the way to go.
No real overhead, especially if you cache any client specific meta data associated with each call.
Most likely you will have to write a façade for each back ...
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Separate unidirectional streams vs single bidirectional stream
It's easier to specify a pair of uni-directional streams rather than a bi-directional stream. In theory, one needs to define the interactions between the function calls in both directions (both reads ...
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Separate unidirectional streams vs single bidirectional stream
Superfluously, unidirectional streams come with a smaller surface but bidirectional streams come with fewer objects to handle. In the end, this is mostly a matter of personal preference of broad ...
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Separate unidirectional streams vs single bidirectional stream
One use case for a bidirectional stream is when editing files. This would often require both reading and writing, and editing files is a quite common use case. I also believe most OSes exposes files ...
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Separate unidirectional streams vs single bidirectional stream
In languages where the interface for a stream is inherently bidirectional (see C#'s Stream for example), this can lead to bugs when the wrong stream is accidentally used.
I agree. That's why there ...
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How to handle data when source of truth is through API
This is an extremely common problem when building any sort of distributed system. This is such a foundational problem for service-oriented architecture and microservices that no single canonical term ...
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