API

Background Recently, i went through excellent video series on Designing & Versioning HTTP_REST APIs presented by Jeffrey Richter. It is available here. In the past, i had read Jeff’s books on CLR and found his writing to be very clear and understandable. So is my experience with this Video Series. Below is summary of learnings from this Video Series. I do not claim that every aspect is covered here so please do check out the videos.

Background I recently came across bounty by Balaji Srinivasan to send Direct Message to all twitter followers. Currently, i do not intend to participate in bounty and this is mere exercise. This is an attempt to write CLI tool in Golang in response to it. For detailed requirements, refer here Approach In Brief, CLI should, accept arguments like Twitter API Key,Auth token, DM Message Download all followers (with profile details) Rank them by Criteria (e.