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From: "Alex R. Mosteo" <alejandro@mosteo.invalid>
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Subject: Re: RESTful web API using AWS?
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p34cekeeper wrote:

> I'm currently tasked with developing a RESTful web API as a font-end
> for what amounts to a bunch of bog-standard RDB operations. I'm
> currently using PHP, which, as it stands is making me feel ill.
> 
> While investigating other (more orthogonal) technology choices
> (erlang, Scala, etc.), I happened to come across Ada Web Server. I
> suppose my question is: is AWS up to the job? Has anyone here done
> this before?

Just to add another success history for your peace of mind. I've not done 
web APIs with AWS, but two interfaces to quite different programs (one p2p,  
other mobile robotics), and AWS is of outstanding quality. Particularly if 
you like Ada, it's a no-brainer choice.

Alex.

> It seems to me like AWS' dispatcher mechanisms are ideal for this
> purpose, because they don't make assumptions about what you want to do
> with the incoming HTTP request (I'm tired of frameworks that force you
> into a ham-fisted, code generating MVC implementation).
> 
> Any input from experienced Ada engineers would be greatly appreciated.