- From: Markus Lanthaler <markus.lanthaler@gmx.net>
- Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 22:12:48 +0200
- To: <public-hydra@w3.org>
Hi Ross, Welcome on board! On 19 Apr 2015 at 17:21, Ross McFarlane wrote: > I'm Ross. I work on retail and ecommerce APIs for a company > called One iota in the UK. This is my first venture into the > world of W3C community groups, so please point me in the right > direction if I'm doing this wrong! There isn't much you can do wrong :-) Don't be afraid to ask (seemingly stupid) questions. If something is unclear to you, it is likely that other people struggle with it as well. > I've been interested in the idea of self-describing APIs for a > few years now. I've implemented some simple features into our > existing API to allow methods and acceptable datatypes to be > described, but I'd like to push that a bit further, ideally in a > standards-compliant way. > > We're on the brink of transitioning our monolithic PHP codebase > to microservices. To avoid the chaos of Developer Open Season, > we're looking at putting together a framework to allow devs to > get started easily, and make sure that the path of least > resistance is pointing in the right direction. I'd like to > implement Hydra (or something like it) as part of this > framework, as it will lower our support load if we don't need to > develop an API client for each service. I'd also like to get > some semantics into the data to allow developers to use their > own vocabulary within their bounded context, but use a common > ontology where they communicate. Semantics should also protect > us against problems like renaming fields, which can be a pain. That seems to be a great match. Hydra probably doesn't contain all you need yet but it should provide a good basis. And your work can inform the design of Hydra. > We've invested quite a bit in describing our data using JSON > schema, so I'm interested to see if/how we can use existing > schemata alongside Hydra and JSON-LD. I've already seen a > discussion along those lines on the email list. > > Well, that's all from me for now. I'm sure I'll be in touch as I > narrow in on particular issues. Looking forward to it :-) Cheers, Markus -- Markus Lanthaler @markuslanthaler
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