Prologue: Well, That Was a Fun Trip, Eh?

“Experience is the best way to learn.”

Shannon Kaiser, “50 Things My Future Self Wants Me To Know”

Bob and Carol

“OK, Bob. I think that wraps it up, right?”

“Right, Carol. Amazing how much we’ve covered in the twelve weeks since we took on our new roles here at BigCo.”

“Yep. I was skeptical when I agreed to pass you my seasoned server-side team and start out the new client-side development group. But it has been quite an enjoyable experience.”

“It has been interesting. I learned quite a bit converting your initial HTML-only backend to a web API service. And I learned more as I watched you and your team first build the basic JSON-object client and then the HAL, Collection+JSON, and Siren hypermedia apps—and all in the last month or so.”

“Well, we both learned quite a bit in a short time. Your research into the representor implementation and the API versioning stuff was great.”

“As was your work on human–computer interaction (HCI) design. And I especially liked when we teamed up to coordinate my team’s microservice-style backend release with your team’s adaptable client that can automatically switch between hypermedia formats at runtime.”

“Yep, that really brought it all full circle, didn’t it, Bob?”

“Sure did. Makes me almost forget where we started three months ago…”

“Hm… You know, I can hardly remember either, Bob…”

References

Shannon Kaiser’s quote is from a September 2014 article she wrote for MindBodyGreen.

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