URI-based Integration — ongoing by Tim Bray

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.