Not high traffic, no. Yes the service is being consumed by a number of other businesses. Not many, perhaps a few dozen.
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Eric Cobb <cft...@ecartech.com> wrote: > > Thanks Michael, those were my initial thoughts on this as well. I'm > glad to see someone else is doing it successfully. > > Just out of curiosity, are you doing this with any high traffic sites? > Or, do you have any cases where other people/sites/services are also > using your API? > > Thanks, > > Eric Cobb > ECAR Technologies, LLC > http://www.ecartech.com > http://www.cfgears.com > > > On 1/28/2011 6:49 PM, Michael Grant wrote: > > I've done this approach a number of times and quite like it. The parent > site > > is just a consumer of your api. You become your own first beta tester and > > helps identify issues before you roll out to the public. Plus if you need > > changes made you make them directly to the api and not just your own > site. > > That way you can always be sure what you are experiencing is the same as > > what a client is. > > > > +1 for this approach. > > > > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Eric Cobb<cft...@ecartech.com> wrote: > > > >> I'm getting ready to start working on what I hope is to become a pretty > >> large side project. Right now I'm in the planning phases, and one of > >> the (eventual) plans is to have a full API that others can use to > >> interact with the site. When thinking about this, I came up with an > >> idea that I wanted to run by you guys to get some opinions. > >> > >> Instead of taking the usual approach of building the site like I want > >> then adding an API to it, what if I were to just build out the API > >> first, then build my site off of that API? Has anyone ever done this, > >> or have any ideas on this? > >> > >> I'm really hoping to get a good discussion going on this, so please let > >> me know what you think! > >> > >> -- > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> Eric Cobb > >> ECAR Technologies, LLC > >> http://www.ecartech.com > >> http://www.cfgears.com > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:341711 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
