I always thought that the most important contribution of @fielding 's work was the "architectural styles" framework, not REST by itself.
Mike Amundsen @mamund@mastodon.social @mamund
15 Oct 2018
Replying to @mamund
per @fielding's disseration, in order to achieve his desired architectural properties (chap02) and meet the WWW's domain requirements (chap04), he wanted to establish a set of required constraints (chap05). most ppl just focus on chap05 and i recommend focusing on chap02. 2/10
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It might have been, but it wasn’t his invention
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A surprising amount of that framework for comparison was my invention, but as a synergy of existing research on principled design and the documented properties of architectural styles (see refs). Taking union of multiple styles to counteract trade-offs was new, AFAIK 🤷‍♂️
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Replying to @fielding @pcalcado
Thanks for clearing this up. I was referring to the idea of architectural styles themselves.

Oct 15, 2018 · 11:02 PM UTC

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Replying to @stilkov @fielding @pcalcado
Not sure about context here but first mentioning of architectural styles I remember was early/mid 1990ties by Shaw and Garlan when the very idea of software architecture as a field was taking hold. Mary showed up at the first patterns conference with it.
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