Vertically Integrated Architectures: Versioned Data Models, Implicit Services, and Persistence-Aware Programming

© Jos Jong 2019

Jos JongVertically Integrated Architectureshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4252-0_8

8. Implicit Services

Jos Jong¹ 

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AMSTELVEEN, The Netherlands

 

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

—Bill Gates

Now that you’ve been introduced to the IR model and the accompanying query language in the last two chapters, you have a basis to delve deeper into the idea of implicit services. The concept of implicit services consists of a generic API that a client can use to access data on a server, without having to explicitly implement every possible request ...