added by sari · updated 2y ago
Composability with other tools
- Instead of every app integrating with every other app’s bespoke API, what if they communicated through a shared protocol?
from Composability with other tools by Gordon Brander
sari added 3y ago
- Commercial software, especially aggregators, are incentivized to resist interoperability. To be composable is to be commoditized. Interoperability means you no longer have a data lock-in moat, or a privileged hub position in the network.
from Composability with other tools by Gordon Brander
sari added 3y ago
- The protocol acts as a hub in the network, cutting the number of connections necessary for full interoperability from n * (n - 1), to just n. The number of integrations scales 1:1 with the number of apps.
from Composability with other tools by Gordon Brander
sari added 3y ago
- With one-off API integrations, every app must be connected with every other app in both directions. The number of integrations required for interoperability is equal to the maximal number of edges in a directed graph, or n * (n-1).
from Composability with other tools by Gordon Brander
sari added 3y ago