The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of REST APIs - O'Reilly Broadcast

http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2011/06/the-good-the-bad-the-ugly-of-rest-apis.html

OAuth is a terrible API authentication scheme unless the sole target content for your API is a browser. Even then, you're not talking about an API, you are talking about structured content. Don't use OAuth to authenticate your API. It's designed to represent a specific user in a specific transactional context and is not terribly useful for representing external systems. It's also overly complex for API authentication needs. And while you're at it, don't use HTTP authentication either. Use signed queries that authentication each API call individually.
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Jason Fried of 37Signals on Business, Focus, and Avoiding Interruption - O'Reilly Broadcast
http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2008/10/jason-fried-of-37signals-on-bu.html
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Why Voting Technology Must be Open Source - O'Reilly Broadcast
http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2008/10/why-voting-technology-must-be.html
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The AWS Outage: The Cloud's Shining Moment - O'Reilly Broadcast
"In short, if your systems failed in the Amazon cloud this week, it wasn't Amazon's fault. You either deemed an outage of this nature an acceptable risk or you failed to design for Amazon's cloud computing model. The strength of cloud computing is that it puts control over application availability in the hands of the application developer and not in the hands of your IT staff, data center limitations, or a managed services provider. The AWS outage highlighted the fact that, in the cloud, you control your SLA in the cloud—not AWS."
http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2011/04/the-aws-outage-the-clouds-shining-moment.html
Tags: amazon, cloud, availability, aws, cloudcomputing, ec2, web, !pending, cloud_computing, computing Saved by: admin