Ben Balter • 11/21/2013

That's not how the internet works

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The article critiques applying desktop-era paradigms like large, monolithic files to the web. It argues for the internet's core principles of granularity, efficiency, and RESTful design, using GitHub's GeoJSON limitations and the New York Times website as examples to advocate for data delivery via lightweight APIs and individual URLs instead of bulk downloads.

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