We're doing HTTP right

http://fireteam.net/blog/were-doing-http-right?

by the_mitsuhiko • 14 years ago

46 7 14 years ago

Last time someone submitted a draft of a blog post I accidentally published on my private blog titled "I'm doing HTTP wrong" about a talk I gave at PyGrunn 2012.

I since pulled that and rewrote it to better show what our infrastructure is actually like.

I'm more than happy to answer questions about that :-)

tbatterii• 14 years ago

the original article isn't fresh in my mind anymore, but I enjoyed this one and found myself agreeing more. :)

FWIW, my opinion is it is very similar to how things are done on appengine. You want to schedule a task? you make a form post to an end point thats setup to be monitored by their service. you want to talk to a backend instance? post to it. maybe their rpcs work the same way (serialize to protocol buffer, post to endpoint, get response, deserialize protocol buffer).

it feels low tech and un-sexy, but it works and it's easy to understand.

k_bx• 14 years ago

So, I am just about writing something that would describe my REST API (possibly generate handlers from description) and integrate very nicely with Sphinx for docs, and I can see (on slides) you already have something like that. Am I right? Do you plan to share something like that? Thanks.

the_mitsuhiko2• 14 years ago

Yes, we have something for that but it's customized for our type system. But I think I could probably write.something up about Sphinx customization.

DrCatbox• 14 years ago

Fireteam website looks nice!

ardillamorris• 14 years ago

The tl;dr should go at the top!

mwsherman• 14 years ago

I love that the tl;dr is at the bottom. Humor intended, I hope.

We're doing HTTP right

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