Fubaredness Is Contagious

In computer science, according to Wikipedia, abstraction is a “mechanism to reduce and factor out details so that one can focus on a few concepts at a time.”
When you hear about abstraction in the context of virtualization-based IaaS cloud computing, the most well known abstraction is computing resources themselves (encapsulation is at play here as [...]

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From time to time, I come across a statement that every service on the Internet must have an API, or people behind this service are doing it wrong. This phrase usually applies specifically to publicly available API.
As a user who stands to benefit from increased number of services allowing third-party applications and mashups, I certainly [...]

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