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API Design
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Designing Machine Learning Frameworks
Mikio Braun's reflection on the design principles behind ML frameworks — the tensions between flexibility and usability, scikit-learn's consistency, and what makes a good ML library API. Written by the author of jBLAS.
Why REST Keeps Me Up At Night
A ProgrammableWeb post on the practical frustrations of RESTful API design — that most APIs called 'REST' are really just HTTP+JSON with none of the hypermedia constraints Roy Fielding actually specified. A perennial tension between REST's academic ideal and real-world API conventions.