On: How should we build the APIs of tomorrow?

[crispyporkbites]

It boils down to:

- optimise the amount of data you send (see graphql/this persons agent idea)

- optimise where you send it to/from

The latter has a hard limit of c, which we’ll always try to move towards. Distributed computation helps, but trades off speed/consistency. The question then becomes whether you can have an inconsistent model for those few seconds.

[adamkl → crispyporkbites]

I always thought this was a pretty interesting take on the future of web applications/APIs, and aligns pretty closely with what you describe:

https://tonsky.me/blog/the-web-after-tomorrow/