[somat]

pedantic note. nobody talking about REST really does REST. Where is the representational state. REST is when you ship the whole application in the message to the far side to let them figure it out.

Now that I've got that stupid pedantry off my chest, Yeah I know what you mean when you say REST we all know what is meant when REST is brought up. But I find it funny how Roy Fielding said "wow, it is really cool how web pages ship the whole application to the user on each request lets talk about that" and everyone else basically went "ok HTTP == REST, got it"

[happymellon]

On the one hand I could go

> Ah ha, but we don't use REST that's my complaint!

But you are correct, although I have used representational state through the request in this case I'm just talking about using a message bus Vs using a blocking http call.

Additional annoyance, using inappropriate tech means that we can't even do scaling to handle spikes. Having a Kafka rebalance because traffic is a little higher so I need to increase the number of listeners and cause an outage when I actually need more throughput makes me sad.