On: Why We Chose API First Development at Our Startup

[Nilzor]

This merely sounds like they're adhering to the buzzword of the year 2008 - SOA. I'm I wrong? (Not that there's anything wrong in that, just nothing new)

[johns → Nilzor]

It's a lighter weight form of the same idea. SOA had a lot of great benefits for its time. This revision of those ideas also has a lot of merit.

[dreamfactory → Nilzor]

From what I've seen in enterprise java, SOA tends to just refer to internal services at a very low level of granularity - basically seems to be OOP with classes described as services. (This may well be a mangling of a good concept.)