Distributed Systems and the End of the API | The Quilt Project

The Quilt Project writings on data, communication, and computation Skip to content ← BACK TO QUILT.ORG @QUILTPROJECT Distributed Systems and the End of the API This is a written (expanded) narrative of the content from a talk I first gave at PhillyETE on April 23rd, 2014. It mostly follows the flow of the presentation given then, but with a level of detail that I hope enhances clarity of the ideas therein. The talk’s original slides are available, though the key illustrations and bullet points contained therein are replicated (and somewhat enhanced) below. When audio/video of the talk is published, I will update this page to link to it. Discussion about this piece has taken place on Hacker News, reddit, and Lobsters. I have two claims of which I would like to convince you today: The notion of the networked application API is an unsalvageable anachronism that fails to account for the necessary complexities of distributed systems. There exist a set of formalisms that do account for thes

The Quilt Project writings on data, communication, and computation Skip to content ← BACK TO QUILT.ORG @QUILTPROJECT Distributed Systems and the End of the API This is a written (expanded) narrative of the content from a talk I first gave at PhillyETE on April 23rd, 2014. It mostly follows the flow of the presentation given then, but with a level of detail that I hope enhances clarity of the ideas therein. The talk’s original slides are available, though the key illustrations and bullet points contained therein are replicated (and somewhat enhanced) below. When audio/video of the talk is publi