Archive for the ‘Distributed Computing’ Category
I have uploaded the talk I did at SD West 2009 on Yahoo! Video and here it is: Managing Software Debt – Chris Sterling @ SD West 2009 @ Yahoo! Video
This is a bit off my usual topics on this blog but I am a heavy open source user and this article is something that I hope gets to more enterprise operations, managers and executives. I have been using and deploying production available applications using open source tools, libraries, and platforms for over 12 years [...]
Mobile code is an essential programming model for the current connected user paradigm which has been deemed “Web 2.0″. There are many examples of mobile code including Java RMI proxies (Jini/JERI smart proxies), browser downloaded JavaScript, Java applets and ActiveX controls. Sometimes mobile code is overlooked in the design of enterprise applications as a medium [...]
Robert X. Cringely of “I, Cringely” fame brought up the world of P2P commercial ventures in “Why P2P Is the Future of Media Distribution Even If ISPs Have Yet to Figure That Out”. I am long time fan of P2P with a dash of service-orientation from the stance of JXTA and Jini. The assertions put [...]
Not that I wish to be apologetic regarding the title of this entry, but I feel it needs some explanation. The title by no means is intended to suggest SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) is simple or without merit. The intent of this entry is to assert the importance of SOA as a means to improve [...]
I have been rambling to colleagues about how much I despise relational databases for many reasons. These include the hierarchical formation of data, the finite set of relationships between tables, their inability to distribute themselves, and the maintenance overhead that they create for application and integration development projects. One approach that I thought was a [...]
