The Benefits of Hypermedia APIs

1 · Oliver Drotbohm · April 29, 2016, 11:01 a.m.
Recently, I stumbled over a blog post by Jonathan Channon explaining how he got to realize that hypermedia APIs are not some magical thing but rather a pragmatic approach to reduce coupling between services. Also, I’ve been traveling conferences with a talk on Domain-Driven Design and REST recently that covers the aspect of hypermedia as well and features an — as I think — rather nice example of how effective hypermedia can be when building distributed systems. I’ll come back to the example in a...