Archive for March, 2006
Harry Pierson points out in his blog entry, “The SQL Complexity Problem”, the difficulties with relational database operations and maintenance. The relational database has been a great tool for expanding business technology into the information age. With this advancement we have found the limitations of relational databases whether it be the ease of [...]
A. Nicklas Malik describes the need for “up front design” in his blog entry “When emergent design doesn't”. I tend to agree with his assessment of the need for some design. We have all had our moments of clarity in which we designed part or all of a system with unusually elegant form [...]
In “Gosling didn't get the Memo”, Ryan Tomayko wrote about how wrong he believes Gosling was in describing scripting languages as:
“get[ting] their power through specialization: they just generate web pages. But none of them attempt any serious breadth in the application domain and they both have really serious scaling and performance problems.”
On the same day, [...]
So, I got this idea for a service and decided to create a web site for exposing it. After looking around for a bit at the ISPs who supported Java servlets I decided that none of the ones I could find met my financial and feature goals. But I did find a healthy [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Michael Platt has expressed his thoughts on edge architecture with his Edge Manifesto. It seems to be a play on the Agile Manifesto. I have a few comments which I would like to share about the manifesto elements:
Community and collaboration are more important than organizations and contracts
There is a tendency towards providing collaborative [...]
Up until a few days ago, I had not heard much about IT governance with the relentless onslaught of SOA into the enterprise. Most of the articles and papers that I did read which were even remotely tackling the issue of governance with SOA were dealing with existing structures and how to fit SOA [...]
Ali Pasha has a nice blog entry on “Policy and Contract-first Design” in which he depicts his reasoning for WSDL first design. I tend to agree with Ali on this one. Most of the work that I have seen so far on web services definitely goes into the contract itself and the WSDL [...]
There is a breathtaking graph shown by Phillip Boxer at his blog
Asymetric Design embedded in an article called “Interoperability Landscapes”. It is amazing to see the collaboration being conducted between Amazon, Google, and eBay mashups across the web. There is a distinct difference between this collaboration and the silo of Microsoft-based mashups in [...]
