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 [...]
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 Workflow Service – Amazon Adding One Enterprise Brick At Time
This week Amazon announced a new orchestration service called Simple Workflow Service. I would encourage you to read the announcement on Werner’s blog where he explains the need, rationale, and architecture. The people I spoke to had mixed reactions. One set of people described this as a great idea and were excited that the developers can [...]
Cloud Software Architect Necessities
Cloud Architecture is becoming more and more relevant in the software industry today. A lot of efforts are becoming less about software and more about cloud software. The whole gamut of cloud technology; platform, service, infrastructure, or platforms on platforms are growing rapidly in number. The days you didn’t need to know what the cloud [...]
Things You Can Learn at the Glue Conference
I’ve been working on an agenda update, and in doing so, I found myself re-discovering all of the things that I can learn about a Glue. Here’s a partial list: How Facebook is opening up their platform Why REST is the foundation for web oriented architecture Where identity is heading, and why it has to [...]
