On: PostgREST – REST API from any PostgreSQL database

[mooreds]

To force yourself to go through a service. To abstract away underlying implementation details.

More here in the value of services (Yegge's rant): https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX

[swah → mooreds]

Those are big organizations, though. Maybe smaller orgs / single devs should start with a monolith?

http://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html

http://martinfowler.com/bliki/MonolithFirst.html

http://martinfowler.com/articles/microservice-trade-offs.htm...

[javaJake → mooreds]

Incredible read. Thank you for sharing that post.

[bpicolo → mooreds]

And by doing so you remove all the performance from what's hopefully the most-performant part of your stack. =/

A database IS a service. It's just not a 'restful web service'. Making it one doesn't gain you any useful abstraction for SOA.

[sitkack → bpicolo]

Not true, I now can get read only data using curl inside of a cronjob. This is really powerful. Someone now needs to make a similar system for Redis.