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SE Radio 576: Jens Neuse on Back Ends for Front Ends

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

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The Benefits of Layering APIs

There seems to be this growing recognition of a need for more deep, layering. John Osterhau talks about deep modules in his book A Philosophy of Software Design. I think that's what a lot of people end up discovering is if we just had these very flat systems where it's essentially a database with an HTTP shim on top of it.

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