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William Vambenepe
stage.vambenepe.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2009
William Vambenepe writes about cloud computing, APIs, and enterprise IT architecture, with frequent skepticism toward REST and SOAP debates.
What HN saysHN commenters link his posts on cloud economics and PaaS as supporting reading, and as background on the REST and SOAP debates.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Are you the dumb money in the Cloud?2 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 2The War On RSS1 people · 256 points · first shared 2012 · 124 comments on HN
- 3Amazon proves that REST doesn’t matter for Cloud APIs1 people · 39 points · first shared 2010 · 26 comments on HN
- 4The REST bubble1 people · 12 points · first shared 2011 · 3 comments on HN
- 5AJAX+REST as the latest architectural mirage1 people · 5 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 6On resisting shiny objects (blog vs. Google+)1 people · 2 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 7Square peg, REST hole1 people · 2 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 8Cloud APIs are like military parades1 people · 2 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 9Cloud + proprietary software1 people · 2 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
- 10Backward-looking API ToS vs. forwarding-looking API usage1 people · 1 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 11REST + RDF, finally a practical solution?1 people · 1 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 12William Vambenepe — Partial resource update, one more time1 people · 1 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 13Look Ma, no hypervisor1 people · 1 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
- 14Redeeming the service description document1 people · 1 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 15DMTF publishes draft of Cloud API standard1 people · 1 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
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spindritf · 2012-10-22
I liked William Vambenepe's comment on that -- "Are you the dumb money in the Cloud?" http://stage.vambenepe.com/archives/2061
vbp · 2010-10-15
For more on why this makes sense, see:
"PaaS as a satisfying and success-ready hobbyist platform" (with Google App Engine as the primary example)
http://stage.vambenepe.com/archives/1014
shoo · 2021-05-20
searching "HTTP over SOAP" finds a few leads:
Tim Bray, 2004, "HTTP over SOAP!?!?!?": https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/05/01/SRRH
Erik Wilde, 2008, "HTTP over SOAP over HTTP": https://dret.typepad.com/dretblog/2008/11/http-over-soap-over-http.htm…
William Vambenepe, 2008, "WS Resource Access working group starting at W3C": http://stage.vambenepe.com/archives/436
Here are some of the specs:
Web Services Transfer (WS-Transfer). This specification describes a general SOAP-based protocol for accessing XML representations of Web service-based resources. https://www.w3.org/Submission/WS-Transfer/
Web Services Resource Transfer (WS-RT). This specification defines extensions to WS-Transfer. While its initial design focuses on management resource access its use is not necessarily limited to those situations. https://www.w3.org/Submission/WSRT/