Increasing Resilience with Hypermedia Clients

The more specific the solution, the less reusable it becomes.

Below is an excerpt from my book "RESTful Web API Patterns and Practices Cookbook" from O'Reilly Media

Since computers, as Ted Nelson tells us, "do what you tell them to do," we have a responsibility to pay close attention to what we tell them. There is a tendency to be very explicit when telling computers what to do, and that’s generally a good thing. T…