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Kenton Varda

What Kenton Varda thinks about simplicity

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Engineer at Cloudflare who designed Workers, Durable Objects and Cap’n Proto; earlier the primary author of Protocol Buffers v2 at Google, and co-founder of Sandstorm.io.

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  1. Our readingRPC fits how programmers already think, in function calls, which frees them from constantly translating between mental models.

    Their wordsThe fact is, RPC fits the programming model we're used to. Every programmer is trained to think in terms of APIs composed of function calls, not in terms of byte stream protocols nor even REST. Using RPC frees you from the need to constantly translate between mental models, allowing you to move faster.

    ↗We've added JavaScript-native RPC to Cloudflare Workersblog.cloudflare.com

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  3. Our readingConnecting a server to a resource should be one step, not two: pointing the server at the resource and separately making the resource accept the server.

    Their wordsMuch of this pain comes about because connecting a server to a resource today involves two steps that should really be one step: Configure the server to point at the resource. Configure the resource to accept requests from the server.

    ↗Why Workers environment variables contain live objectsblog.cloudflare.com