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Ask HN: That article about client-specific APIs?

2 points by trumbitta2 ↗ HN
I've been trying to find it again for some time now, to no avail.

I don't remember when, but I feel it's not been more than 2 years, here on HN popped a post or a comment about writing a special version of your REST API for each client you may have needed to support / use.

Any pointers?

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brudgers
I remember hearing a podcast about the idea [where 'client' is used in the software sense, not the person who pays a consultant money sense, though I suppose that might not be a bad idea]. It was probably on SE-Radio or perhaps Hanselminutes. Hanselminutes probably has better search.

So here's my vague eyewitness account. I make a 220 mile round trip about one evening a week and listen to podcasts. I have a vague recollection of where I was when I heard the idea and based on that I have a rather uncertain feeling that it was in the context of Google and rewriting their software updating system in Go. But that could be totally wrong.

Good luck.