[devhead]

on the client note...

code reuse is why these clients exist, if you are a developer I can promise you that you are not issuing tcp requests by hand and instead prefer to use some standard library (curl) to handle that for you.

[tomc1985]

People don't seem to understand the entire spectrum of consequences that comes with so tightly integrating some cloud service on the other side of the web. That distance is an important detail that these client-gem implementations like to gloss over... because the same developer that reaches for said library may very likely be the same guy to use that gem in some tight inner loop, and then wonder why his app is so slow because get_base_id() has to roundtrip that distance multiple times to answer his question...