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Keynote - JSON Graph: Reactive REST at Netflix

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) · talk · Watch on YouTube

Web developmentSoftware architecture & design

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

  1. “I'm also excited to see Jafar Husain's Falcor”

    Different implementation of the same concept

    bsimpson, 2015-05 · Recommendation · in “GraphQL Introduction”

  2. “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”

  3. “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”

  4. “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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