granos · HackerTrans

4 lata temudiscuss

Crazy issues like that definitely do happen. But, this speaker output power issue being due to a file transfer error doesn't feel right. Do the perform any kind of integrity checking on the fw before installing it? Even an md5sum on the package seems like it would almost certainly have caught this. Either this wasn't caused by a file transfer problem, or their fw update process has some serious design issues.

granos

5 lat temudiscuss

If the SDK in question is just a thin wrapper on REST then sure, it isn't providing very much value. But most of the SDKs I've used implement higher level logical operations -- things that require understanding the intent of the API/data model and how things are supposed to fit together. By being able to write my code against that higher level abstraction I'm able to save time and offload some of the responsibility for knowing how the pieces all fit together to the people who know that best. Ultimately my goal is not to make REST requests, it's to provide value to my customers, and the APIs I call are means to that end.

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