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This took me a while to figure out, but it’s incredibly powerful once you get it. As others have suggested, I was working on a Redux-based interpreter.

REST allows for clients and servers to evolve independently. If you can constrain that you can probably design something significantly simpler. That’s not a shortcoming of REST, th…

HATEOAS is designed so clients and servers can evolve independently, like on the open web. If you control both ends, HATEOAS is probably overkill. (And that’s ok.)

The problem isn’t the schema, it’s that you must have exactly one at all times. Sometimes you need zero, sometimes you need many. Having a fixed schema in production reduces unpred…

Only? Many of the early MongoDB employees came from MarkLogic. Several have returned too. (Full disclosure: PM at MarkLogic)

Or your data is…you know…mark-up. Imagine a biology textbook, or legal contract, with inline citations and entities. There’s lots of marked-up human text around, even if that’s not…

If you control both the client and the server, there are lots of shortcuts you can take. As you say, that’s not the problem that REST was trying to solve, though.

That is clearly an invitation to Netflix and chill.

This was nothing but a ring-kissing ceremony only to boost Trump’s own ego. The entire Trump campaign has been a sophomoric revenge fantasy exacted against the (actual) elites who …

Argh! They didn’t charge for the component of their offering that was most valuable. Period. Good software doesn’t pay for itself. Consulting and training are difficult to scale, m…

This is a cultural problem not a technical one. The social contract in a dev team should strictly enforce no cowboy commits to master…ever. If Bob thinks that’s OK, there are more …

I'd love some backstory on this too. I (kind of) understand JSX for HTML, but declaring routing rules seems very far from that.

This looks really cool, but I still don’t understand how Rethink plans to cash out their VCs, though—~$12M, according to Angel List. Cloud hosting is trending toward zero and suppo…

I created a quick code generator[1] for async action scaffolding just for this reason. [1] https://github.com/jmakeig/redux-thunk-scaffolding/blob/mast...

ACID transactions in a highly available distributed system are hard and often fail in subtle ways when done wrong at the edges. Any implementation will take years to mature in the …

And it’s a database with indexes and caches.

OK, I'll bite: What is "fair"? Isn't allocated to the users who value it most fair?

Maybe "efficient" would have been a better word than "good". I have no doubt that Uber is pricing to benefit their shareholders, not the public good. That's why the taxi fare regul…

"Couldn't afford" is a loaded term. I can afford a helicopter ride home, but I don't value its utility enough to pay what's being asked. Isn't that how prices are supposed to work?…

Great read and thorough approach. However, it's worth noting that Uber provided the data for this study. I'd imagine they had an idea as to its conclusions before they provided it.…

http://developer.marklogic.com/features/javascript (Full disclosure: I work at MarkLogic)

[Full disclosure: I’m a product manager at MarkLogic.] MarkLogic can handle all of these requirements with aplomb. You can think of MarkLogic as a database built with search engine…

Looks like a FLWOR statement in XQuery.