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OpenStack Extensions: Challenges and Lessons Learned in the Development and Governance of Extensible REST Services

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Jorge Williams shares some of the challenges and lessons learned while adding extensions to OpenStack.

Bio

Jorge Williams is a Principal Architect in the Rackspace Cloud Integration Team where he develops tools and services to solve integration problems. He has aided in the design and development of the Repose HTTP proxy, the Cloud Servers API, the OpenStack Compute and Identity APIs, and the OpenStack extension mechanism.

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Mar 08, 2013

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  • I am confused

    by Jean-Jacques Dubray,

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    REST was sold to us because WS-* was too complex and all you would need was to expand the resource space or use hypermedia as you see fit. In particular, people like Steve Vinoski or Bill Burke kept telling us that because the interface to resources was "Uniform" you would be building non-breakable distributed application.

    Now, you are telling us that because "RESTful" services can't support namespaces, we have to create a central registry of some kind of contract metadata. You are telling that extensibility is really hard to reach.

    To me, HTTP headers sound like an obscure non RESTful kludge for dealing with extensions.

    Looks like you could have done all this work with WS-* in a fraction of the time. Am I mistaken?

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