@lettosprey about 2010 I worked for a supply chain...

@lettosprey about 2010 I worked for a supply chain company that had issues integrating data provided by multiple upstream suppliers

A consultant: "But they are switching to XML, so if they all give you XML and your system imports XML it will all just work"

Me: "...it doesn't work like that"

Them: "eh?"

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Coding Cottagecore Bogwitch

@lettosprey

Me: "XML isn't a data format, it's a way of creating data formats. A web page is XML. Our accounts package can import XML. If I try importing our company home page into our account package...it's not going to be able to do anything useful"

Them: "...ohhhhh. Nobody has ever actually explained it to me like that before."

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4 June at 12:35 | Open on hachyderm.io

Lett Osprey

@forestpines And now, it is common to make exactly the same assumption with APIs.

"Our service uses an API from this place. That other place also has an API. Why are you saying our service does not work with this API?"

4 June at 12:41 | Open on tech.lgbt

Coding Cottagecore Bogwitch

@lettosprey oh definitely, I've come across that a lot, especially when people have absorbed just a little bit of surface-level marketing from API gateway vendors

4 June at 12:42 | Open on hachyderm.io

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