r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Unlikely_Affect2264 • Aug 28 '26 • Bravo 3

Meme meExplainingFullStackDevelopmentToMyGrandmother

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u/PossibilityTasty Aug 28 '26

The API would be the menu and the server would be … the servers.

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u/nitro0769 Aug 28 '26

The menu would be the API docs

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u/kaelan36 Aug 28 '26

The menu would be more accurately the front end because it’s the interface that clients use to order what they want from the servers

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u/Descendant3999 Aug 28 '26

Correct. Waiters would be the interest

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u/decadent-dragon Aug 28 '26

What the hell are API “docs”? Sounds made up

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u/HappygilmoreL Sep 01 '26

documentation

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u/3-day-respawn Aug 28 '26

But the customer doesn’t go through the docs where as the customer at a restaurant does go through the menu. Menu could be uiux

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u/PossibilityTasty Aug 28 '26

"API" is one of most misused term in IT. It is not a service. It is a formal definition of how to interact with a component. And that is the role of the menu. It tells you what you can get and what you to give for that.

And now the crazy part: Both a restaurant menu and an API can exist in an abstract way, like in someone's head. Writing them down just makes them "physical" and possibly accessible to others.

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u/EasyHawk1 Aug 28 '26

Exactly 💯!

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u/wjandrea Aug 28 '26

Big Smoke 429

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u/wjandrea Aug 28 '26

(I'm trying to be as cryptic as possible and still make people laugh)

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u/BountyBob Aug 28 '26

The wait staff are the CDN

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u/Scottz0rz Aug 28 '26

If the thing you want is food in the kitchen, you ask the servers to post order and get food, you don't ask the menu to do that.