Ciaran’s Random Writings

Technology issues at the National Grid web site, it would seem, according to the 60 second page load times and resulting SQL Server/ASP.NET errors pictured right. (Click to zoom)

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A point worth repeating from Bill de hÓra’s recent post is:

“This is not an architecture thing, but please don’t use primary keys in URLs. Doing so fails to encapsulate the implementation details of the software/persistence from the web; pks aren’t a basis for stable URLs.”

Read in conjunction with Noah Slater’s comment at the end, and don’t overlook the irony of the primary key in the URL of my own post.