Keynote - JSON Graph: Reactive REST at Netflix
What it is
Jafar Husain's ACM keynote presents Netflix's JSON Graph and Falcor, which let web developers treat all cloud data as one virtual JSON model. It combines reactive programming with REST principles.
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN commenters point to it as an alternative take on the data-fetching problem GraphQL addresses, and as a clear argument for when RPC or graph models beat plain REST.
- 4 people recommended it
- 4 different months
- 0 strong recommendations
- first 2015, last 2023
What HN commenters said
“I'm also excited to see Jafar Husain's Falcor”
Different implementation of the same concept
bsimpson, 2015-05 · Recommendation · in “GraphQL Introduction”
“JSON Graph by Netflix [1] is worth a look-in for a different take on the problem.”
Different take on the data-fetching problem
ignoramous, 2016-04 · Recommendation · in “RestCommander: Fast Parallel Async HTTP Client as a Service”
“gives a very nice summary of when and how you might prefer RPC to REST”
Summary of when to prefer RPC over REST
e12e, 2020-10 · Recommendation · in “Application Load Balancers enables gRPC workloads with end to end HTTP/2 support”
“you might enjoy the ideas behind Netflix's Falcor”
Netflix Falcor ideas
yencabulator, 2023-03 · Recommendation · in “GraphQL vs. REST APIs: a complete guide”
Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.
Topics: falcor, json graph, netflix, reactive programming, rest, graphql
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