Another great article by Dan Creswell on “Scaling through Distribution and ObjectGrid” talks about how enterprise applications should be made in the future. A call to arms for asynchronous services and agents! Well, maybe just a bit of acceptance anyways. Dan has been speaking about this a long time and so have many others as he points out.
Dan put some great links to Adam Bosworth‘s articles:
Also, Dan mentions Cameron Purdy who will be speaking at our April 26th meeting of the Puget Sound IASA chapter on “Distributed Caching: Essential Lessons”.
I agree that we need a way to make asynchronous services and agents easy to develop while also modifying our current educational practices in IT software development. A new age is coming with the realization of Web 2.0 (whatever this actually means?), service orientation, and grids as candidates for increasing ROI, reuse and usability. It is definitely an interesting age to be working in this industry. I do hope that Dan is correct in saying “Architecture will start to matter again”. There is need to think about how software creates business value and stop thinking about the bits and bytes of our applications.
