I was looking for data on which backend implementation of data services was the best to use in flash, and everyone is talking REST these days and just straight xml data.
But there’s still much to be desired in using a more optimized pipeline, especially when dealing with large amount of data or many concurrent connections or heavy bandwidth utilization. Does the service really scale? Is REST really battle tested? Doesn’t KISS still apply when it comes to online applications that really need to be responsive to the user of the system? I deal with architects with many odd and varied bias’, but in general if you can show them real world tests they’ll come around generally.
I came across an excellent example of many great tests being run realtime at James Ward’s site:
- Example of many of the popular data services available today to flash developers
Try it yourself here.
