LinkedIn opens Rest.li, a RESTful Service Architecture Framework | ProgrammableWeb
LinkedIn is among the most visited websites in the world. At ProgrammableWeb, we are more interested in number of API calls that the LinkedIn platform is serving per day and we can definitely say that it is among the API Billionaires with conservative estimates putting the number at around a few billion API calls per month. If you are looking at understanding and better still using the framework that powers the LinkedIn REST based API, we need to thank LinkedIn for opensourcing Rest.li, their RESTful Service Architecture Framework.
Joe Betz, Staff Engineer at LinkedIn announced Rest.li to the world. In his words, Rest.li is a REST+JSON framework for building robust, scalable service architectures using dynamic discovery and simple asynchronous APIs. The framework has evolved at LinkedIn and addresses their own requirements, chief among them being standard way to describe the resources available, enable access by diverse clients written in any language, standardizing common API operations, ability to support large scale of operations and developer friendliness.
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