You need OAuth only when you want to enable a user of your service to allow a third-party client application to access his/her data hosted in your service without revealing his/her credentials (ID & password) to the application. What a pair of API key & API secret can do is just authentication of a client … Read more
MPI was deisgned tightly-coupled compute clusters with fast, reliable networks. Spread and ØMQ are designed for large distributed systems. If you’re designing a parallel scientific application, go with MPI, but if you are designing a persistent distributed system that needs to be resilient to faults and network instability, use one of the others. MPI has … Read more
No, I find that TDD generally encourages good design. Things which are easily testable are often easy to use in production too… because when coming up with a test, you think, “What would I like to do next?” and then make it work. When practising TDD you are forced to think through the ‘use cases’ … Read more
Perhaps one aspect of RESTful APIs you may want to look for is “scalability”. Do REST APIs scale? If they do, why do the companies below go their own way? Facebook: GraphQL. GraphQL is a query language for APIs and a runtime for fulfilling those queries with your existing data. Netflix: FALCOR Falcor lets you … Read more
Design Patterns provide the following definitions: toolkits: “often an application will incorporate classes from one or more libraries of predefined classes called toolkits. A toolkit is a set of related and reusable classes designed to provide useful, general-purpose functionality”. frameworks: “a framework is a set of cooperating classes that make up a reusable design for … Read more
Don’t know what language you are using, but for example in C/C++ you’d add a include file with the API keys, and then leave it out of source control, instead add a bogus file with explicitly fake API keys. Most languages have one or the other way to include files.
No, its is not possible to upload files through an incoming Webhook. But you can attach image URLs to your attachments with the image_url tag. To upload files you need to use the Slack Web API and the files.upload method. Yes, it requires a different authentication, but its not that complicated if you just use … Read more