Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by rkangel 751 days ago
I would argue that connected devices should only rely on your services - otherwise how do you know that they're not going away?

And if they're your services then you can maintain their stability.

1 comments

"Your services" aren't entirely yours. Practically speaking, no one builds systems entirely from scratch. A service likely has remote dependencies too, some of which will trickle down to the clients of your service. For Spotify specifically, they rely on SSO providers and third-party payments services; if those APIs change, then the client will likely require updates even though Spotify didn't change anything in their own core functionality.