May 25
Developers fail to care about one sided religious war
"Do we see that customers who develop applications using AWS care about REST or SOAP? Absolutely not! A small group of REST evangelists continue to use the Amazon Web Services numbers to drive that distinction, but we find that developers really just want to build their applications using the easiest toolkit they can find. They are not interested in what goes on the wire or how request URLs get constructed; they just want to build their applications."
I spend all my time on the SOAP side of this stuff but I agree this is what developers do, and should, care about. My feeling is that SOAP enables better toolkits than REST does. Of course the best you could do is get a toolkit that can handle either.