On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Samuel Richardson <[email protected]>wrote:

> What are peoples thoughts on using rest for internal communications between
> servers?
>

I love using http for communication between servers. It's easy to test
manually with curl and it's a protocol that most admins should be familiar
with.

Web hooks <http://www.webhooks.org/> are awesome.

Exposing resources using REST/ JSON is so damn simple and lots of
tools<http://mike.bailey.net.au/2011/02/json-in-your-web-browser/>
support <http://mike.bailey.net.au/2011/02/json-from-the-command-line/> it.

Is there too much overhead setting up HTTP connections? too verbose?
>

That depends on the latency between your servers and number of connections
you need to make.

Caching with something like Varnish can give you incredible read
performance.

- Mike
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