Links roundup: 4

• Flavio Ribeiro et al. have released components of the video processing workflow at the New York Times to the open source community.
• Adam Conner-Simons describes Gitless, developed at MIT. The tool is intended as a gentler introduction to the Git mindset—no stashing required.
• Phil Sturgeon makes a succinct comparison between REST- and RPC-based APIs. One isn't better than the other; they're just different.

  • RPC-based APIs are great for actions (that is, procedures or commands).
  • REST-based APIs are great for modeling your domain (that is, resources or entities), making CRUD (create, read, update, delete) available for all of your data.