# URI-based Integration — ongoing by Tim Bray

<https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2021/10/26/URI-based-Integration>

- Host: [tbray.org](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/tbray.org/)
- Saved: October 28, 2021 (2021-10-29T02:29:03Z)
- Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/0b2b56e49832/
- JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/0b2b56e49832.json

## What Jamie wrote

Bray was involved in the creation of AWS Lambda, and I love this story about the use of URI's in the system.

> But to be honest, all of that comes more or less for free once you decide that everything you might want to integrate is a resource and thus should be identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier. I recommend this design pattern.

I’m a big fan of this myself. In general, try to use things that are universally addressable, not some ID or unique string that you have to know a lot about in order to determine how to access it.

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT201: Weekly Thing #201 / Collecting, Smart, Stupid](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/201/), Notable

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