[vrdabomb5717]

What fascinates me is how close this synthetic filesystem is to making REST calls with a small client library. All your application needs to know is the path to call and what HTTP verb to use. Even the way the author introduces versioning sounds familiar: using a versioning file is similar to having a version at the beginning of your URL.

I appreciate how good architectures all resemble each other at some point, with only the transport layers differing between applications.

[robmccoll]

REST is just CRUD over HTTP. The file interface and Unix everything-is-a-file concept are one of the earliest well-defined CRUD interfaces in computing. The author (and Plan 9) are taking these concepts to their logical conclusion.