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 * * e. [email protected] w. mike.bailey.net.au -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
