{"id":10231,"date":"2014-02-18T20:47:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T20:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2974474"},"modified":"2014-02-18T20:47:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T20:47:00","slug":"bringing-intelligence-to-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/bringing-intelligence-to-rest\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing Intelligence to REST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Out-of-band metadata and business context outside hypermedia applications are by definition exterior to the contract, and thus aren\u2019t amenable to any distributed computing architectural style that relies too heavily on static APIs. Therein lies the essential challenge of the API. To those analysts trumpeting the API Economy I say: the API Economy has nearly run its course. We\u2019ve solved as many problems as we\u2019re going to solve with contracted software interfaces. But the business stakeholders still aren\u2019t happy. After all, it\u2019s their context \u2013 the business context \u2013 that APIs (whether RESTful or not) are so woefully unable to deal with. It\u2019s time for another approach.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2974474\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out-of-band metadata and business context outside hypermedia applications are by definition exterior to the contract, and thus aren&rsquo;t amenable to any distributed computing architectural style that relies too heavily on static APIs. Therein lies the essential challenge of the API. To those analysts trumpeting the API Economy I say: the API Economy has nearly run its course. We&rsquo;ve solved as many problems as we&rsquo;re going to solve with contracted software interfaces. But the business stakeholders still aren&rsquo;t happy. After all, it&rsquo;s their context &ndash; the business context &ndash; that APIs (whether RESTful or not) are so woefully unable to deal with. It&rsquo;s time for another approach.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2974474\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}