Deploycon, PaaS & the pending data tier gravity fallout…
For a quick recap of last years Deploycon & related talks, check out my “Day #3 => DeployCon && Enterprise && Data Gravity” entry from last year. PaaS Systems aren’t always effectively distributed. Heroku has fallen over every time east-1 has gone down at AWS. Not that I’m saying they’ve done bad, just pointing that [...]
ORMs Suck, I’m Asking & I’m Telling
Here’s a thing that’s come up already. ORMs, or Object Relational Mapper, are a RDBMS based thing for devs that want, in essence a statically typed object to deal with when writing code (yes, I know there’s a ton of other things an ORM can do or be used for, but I’m going with a [...]
Cloud Computing and Distributed Computing, Something is Broken
First off, I’m going to start off with some definitions to clarify things for this conversation. Cloud Computing, in general, has been perverted to mean almost anything available for sale today in technology. It’s rhetorically stupid. But we all still use the term to some degree. Going back to cloud computing at the core, we’re [...]
Android? Car mode? Speakerphone auto-on? Bluetooth volume fail? Micro-USB design-flaw!
Are you -that is, your phone- suffering from the following symptoms? weeks or even months ago, “car mode” started to seemingly randomly get enabled ever since, that seemed to happen more often at some point, when you made or received a call, the speakerphone would sometimes be automatically turned on since a while, when you [...]
TIBCO’s Silver Fabric – a golden lining
I attended TIBCO’s PaaS workshop, where they showed and demoed Silver Fabric - the product that has come forth from the DataSynapse acquisition in September 2009. Erik Hageman, Mario Invernizzi and Steven van der Kroftlead the session. The location was the Radisson Blu near Schiphol, a fine location with excellent service and food & drinks. After we had [...]
What drives IT failure? Ignorance and Greed
It was an interesting question Charles Storm posed the other day: was I saying that solutions are primarily driven by ignorance and greed? I wasn’t, but he made me think: Every solution is driven by need, or want, and some lack of knowledge. Every failure is caused by ignorance and greed Let’s see whether I [...]
How and why common sense will beat REST
In my previous post I described how REST would replace SOAP. If you paid close attention you will have noticed that I actually didn’t say anything in favour of REST, but everything at the expense of SOAP. Because it indeed seems like REST will be the new SOAP – which is in contradiction with the [...]
GoDaddy… Go… Gone
Today the Godaddy servers have been hit by a simple DDOS – a distributed denial of service involving a few dozen clients or servers that fire off hundreds or even thousands of requests a second at their servers. It’s a simple attack, and very effective. It’s like Arnold Schwarzenegger in Kindergarten Cop, standing in the [...]
Resource identification is not a REST invention
An article on programmable web – pointed out to me by Fred Verheul (thanks Fred!) – gave me an adrenaline rush. It was so full of bollox that I almost started to hyperventilate – which is a pun on the abundant use of the word hypermedia in that same post Let me just quote one [...]
How CEP will make SaaS the killer app
I got the insight at TIBCO’s Transform event I blogged about yesterday - how we can finally solve the Customisation Riddle we’ve been unsuccessfully combating in IT for decades. Software as a Service is breathing down our necks and guaranteed to replace quite a few on-premise apps in this decade alone. Starting with your tertiary (cleaning, [...]
No Custom Code, No Customization, No Requirements. And No Integration
The title comes from a conversation between Ron Tolido and me in which we perused the joys and challenges of SaaS. Ron has a very sharp mind and an even sharper tongue, although he somehow magically manages to give people the idea of adressing them in their comfort zone – I never said I was [...]
Hybrid mobile apps will conquer the mobile enterprise
[Image by HLundgaard] There is a difference about how we thinks things will evolve, and how they do. I’ve been wondering about Mobile and app stores for a while – they seem contradictionairy. Mobile has taken such a great flight because of lowered cost and increased availability of Internet for mobile, the old-fashioned telephone has turned [...]
REST definition and its place within Enterprise Integration
In a previous post I explained why REST is useless when it comes to Enterprise Integration. Even though at the very beginning I explicitly stated that Roy Fielding wrote his dissertation entirely in the context of Web and that REST has absolutely no business benefits whatsoever with regards to Enterprise Integration I got surprised to [...]
Simple Service Enterprise – part 6
In my latest post, I recapped on the previous posts and started to take Integration from a business point of view. I’ll continue to do that here, and try to mix in technical details without it getting too confusing. Wish me luck! Here’s the conversation again: Hey Tom! What did the Red Sox do last [...]
Simple Service Enterprise – part 5
In my first post on SSE I explained why and how I want, and can achieve, and have achieved, an Enterprise Integration paradigm that will give you a device-agnostic, platform-agnostic, tool-agnostic architecture that will free you from being crushed by the two tectonic plates in IT at the moment: diversity in devices, platforms and tools on the [...]
