Interview with Pablo Castro on Astoria - Data Services for the Web
I caught up with Pablo Castro, who announced Codename Astoria - Data Services for the Web earlier today at MIX07.
Here's the video of our chat together.
In the meantime, there have been a number of blog posts commenting on the Astoria announcement via TechMeme:
John Musser at ProgrammableWeb.com:
"Although it’s an early experimental release, it’s quite an interesting approach using a very RESTful set of patterns and infrastructure for web data services."
Michael Coté of Redmonk:
"If you’re interested in REST, SOA (hopefully, of the REST type), SaaS, or (though I shudder to type it) “the semantic web,” take a look at Astoria yourself. Like I said, it’s all at the “labs”/”project” stage now. But, that means there’s a chance to get in there and influence what the final release turns out to be. Does the interface and use model “work”? Do you like it?"
Danny Ayers:
"They've totally gone to town on URIs and HTTP access - very much leaning towards REST. What's exposed is proper web stuff. There's a fair bit of innovation there that looks useful, it'll be interesting to see what RESTafarian gurus make of it. So the insides will be good for MS-heads - great, anything that encourages building web-friendly services has to be a good thing."
Alex James:
"Combine REST with a conceptual model and well you get Data 2.0.
Astoria leverages REST + Entity Data Model to expose data to the web.
Very cool."