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For nearly as long as the web has existed , web development has wrestled mightily with the right way to connect components over the network. This is the question of the remote API . It influences every aspect of the software we build. We sort of arrived at a tolerable compromise with JSON APIs. While these have their limitations, you have to appreciate their underlying simplicity.
But the advent of AI-enabled endpoints that can mediate intent is changing the basic workings of the internet. This change is gradually reawakening an old dream, the service-oriented architecture (SOA). This time around, with luck, we’ll finally gain the flexible, discoverable, and maintainable automated service discovery we’ve longed for. Fingers crossed.
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