#rpc

I would love to see every API to be RESTful, consistent, hypertext driven, and more importantly, interoperable. The reality is that getting consistent APIs is hard – particularly those that are done by distributed teams. For the record – I vehemently hate SOAP APIs and the SOAP mindset. I dislike RPC-style operation names tunneled over HTTP. I frown and cringe whenever I see unnecessary custom headers and complicated formats. I wish POST+XML goes away. I wish every API gets rewritten to the modern understanding of HTTP and REST, serving JSON. But I would rather spend my time enabling interoperability than preaching for consistency.