Have you run into any unexpected road bumps since others started using your API? Naturally, having a solid API able to withstand the traffic is essential, but do you have any pointers for anyone wanting to go this route?
Thanks, Eric Cobb ECAR Technologies, LLC http://www.ecartech.com http://www.cfgears.com On 1/31/2011 8:27 AM, Michael Grant wrote: > Not high traffic, no. Yes the service is being consumed by a number of other > businesses. Not many, perhaps a few dozen. > > > > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Eric Cobb<cft...@ecartech.com> wrote: > >> Thanks Michael, those were my initial thoughts on this as well. I'm >> glad to see someone else is doing it successfully. >> >> Just out of curiosity, are you doing this with any high traffic sites? >> Or, do you have any cases where other people/sites/services are also >> using your API? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Eric Cobb >> ECAR Technologies, LLC >> http://www.ecartech.com >> http://www.cfgears.com >> >> >> On 1/28/2011 6:49 PM, Michael Grant wrote: >>> I've done this approach a number of times and quite like it. The parent >> site >>> is just a consumer of your api. You become your own first beta tester and >>> helps identify issues before you roll out to the public. Plus if you need >>> changes made you make them directly to the api and not just your own >> site. >>> That way you can always be sure what you are experiencing is the same as >>> what a client is. >>> >>> +1 for this approach. >>> >>> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Eric Cobb<cft...@ecartech.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I'm getting ready to start working on what I hope is to become a pretty >>>> large side project. Right now I'm in the planning phases, and one of >>>> the (eventual) plans is to have a full API that others can use to >>>> interact with the site. When thinking about this, I came up with an >>>> idea that I wanted to run by you guys to get some opinions. >>>> >>>> Instead of taking the usual approach of building the site like I want >>>> then adding an API to it, what if I were to just build out the API >>>> first, then build my site off of that API? Has anyone ever done this, >>>> or have any ideas on this? >>>> >>>> I'm really hoping to get a good discussion going on this, so please let >>>> me know what you think! >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> Eric Cobb >>>> ECAR Technologies, LLC >>>> http://www.ecartech.com >>>> http://www.cfgears.com >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:341812 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
