Autonomy isn’t Autonomy - and a few words about Caching.
<SPAN lang=EN-US>A question that is raised quite often in the context of “SOA” is that of how to deal with data. Specifically, people are increasingly interested in (and concerned about) appropriate caching strategies. What I see described in that context is often motivated by the fundamental misunderstanding that the SO tenet that speaks about ”automony” is perceived to mean “autonomous computing” while it really means “avoid coupling”. The former is an architecture...
Genuine Advantage Reboot
I may work for the firm, but ... As a good corporate citizen I just installed the Windows Update item that got pushed out to me. The "Windows Genuine Advantage Notification" tool that's supposed to notify me -- I am paraphrasing the decription that I clicked away already -- whether my copy of Windows is genuine and to help me acquire a legal copy if it finds out that its not (whatever that might do). I...
Services and the Business/IT Gap
<SPAN lang=EN-US>Recently, a gentleman from Switzerland wrote me an email after attending the “WinFX Tour” presentations in Zurich. He is a business consultant advising corporations on the IT strategy and an IT industry veteran with his first programming work dating as long back as 1962. He was quite interested in the Workflow part of my presentation, but wrote me that he thinks that those abstraction efforts go the wrong way. He sees...
Look, look, my blog is on MSDN
<SPAN lang=EN-US>When I started blogging about 5 years ago ( I can’t remember exactly, but 2002 seems right) I would never have thought that my blog would end up on the MSDN Web Services home page. Now it did. Matt Powell, who’s been the blogger featured on the front page of the “MSDN Web Services and Distributed Technologies Developer Center” at http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices has asked me to whether I’d be interested in...
“It always rains in Seattle”
<span lang=EN-US>Every second person who knows that I’ll soon be moving to the Puget Sound area around Seattle soon can’t help to point out how much the weather allegedly sucks. Here’s a screen clip that I made last week but didn’t get around to blog yet. This goes to show (and the comparison holds pretty much throughout the year) that the Seattle weather is just like the weather at home – we’ll...