I recently listened to David Nolen‘s talk from QCon London conference from back in July called Demand Driven Architecture. Before continuing, you should have a listen.

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I really like a lot of things Mr. Nolen has done and really enjoy most of his talks and posts. I was less enthused with this one. I think my main hang up was his mis-representation of REST and resources. I get the feeling he equates resources with data stores. If you watched the video and then skimmed that Wikipedia page, you will quickly see that the notion of “joining” two resources is nonsensical. I think Mr. Nolen is really referring to that “pragmatic” definition that means POX + HTTP methods, which really would correlate well to data stores.