In “Quo vadis SOA“, Matthias Steiner has written a very readable blog post about where SOA is today, in SAP and beyond, casting a critical but balanced eye on what the service orientation approach has delivered. In the section “Did SOA deliver on its promise?”, the words (some quoted) that stand out are “critics”, “disillusionment”, [...]
This is a bit of a hand-wavy post, but I wanted to get my thoughts down. Recently there’s been a spate of interest around interaction with devices, applications and systems … via a chat-style interface. This is nothing new, of course. Bots have existed on the IRC networks for a long time. The venerable Purl, [...]
I read a couple of chapters of two different books recently: Ch.5 of O’Reilly’s “Beautiful Architecture“: Resource-Oriented Architectures: Being ‘In The Web’ by Brian Sletten Ch.1 of Manning’s “SOA Patterns“: Solving SOA Pains With Patterns by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz, Eric Bruno, and Udi Dahan (from a free online Early Access Program) In these chapters, there were [...]
Yes yes, I know I’m late to the game, and everyone and his dog has given their angle on why Twitter is so successful, but I’d like to weigh in with a few thoughts too. The thoughts are those that came together when I was chatting to Ian Forrester (@cubicgarden), at a GeekUp event in [...]