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.g. Location) Send each follower a DM with provided message (upto daily DM Limit) be easy to use and maintain Notes, Due to Daily DM Limit, Follower details will have to be persisted alongside flag indicating if DM has been sent. SQLIte is used from simplicity perspective. There should be a scheduled job that will send the DM upto daily DM Limit. At the same time, it needs to refetch any new followers and push them in the flow (reconcile). Potentially, this could be extended to other social media providers other than twitter. Milestones, Create code structure Plan is to have separation between CLI & have twitter as go package Accept Arguments and Connect to Twitter Study and complete follower retrieval Ranking of followers Persisting followers Sending DM upto Daily limit Rules, Use golang’s in-built packages as much as possible Every milestone to have associated Unit test cases ...