Scraping the WS-* off the shoe

Dare Obasanjo on WS-*. Both barrels smoking.

Give a link, take a link

"...On the Web however, it has historically been well nigh impossible to take links without giving some back. When you create a web page you cannot help but create a resource that others may in turn link to. ...
[...]
With all the hair pulling about viable business models on the Web, increased tension between community and commerce is inevitable. The days of "Give a link. Take a link." may be numbered. In years to come, we may look back on the birth of Rich Internet Applications as the moment when community finally had to give way to commerce: for good or ill. " --
Give a link, take a link

Dell Ubuntu Boxes

Details becoming available.

Half a million pages per hour

That's some serious scaling right there. approx 8k hits a minute, approx 130 per sec...

Python limitation

A Python limitation to be aware of for sure.

Moore's Law and batteries

"The days of passively waiting for better hardware to make your software go faster without doing any work are coming to an end my friends." Moore's Law and batteries

SOA - maybe now we are getting somewhere i.e. towards a definition

For years I have argued that SOA is all about asynchronicity. SOA is all about temporal decoupling. Distributed Transactions is for the birds in the general case etc.etc.

In the last, say, 2 years, I have backed away almost completely from the whole SOA thing because my notions of what an SOA is have not been shared by the majority-holding corba/rpc-with-angle-brackets exponents.

It is refreshing to hear Pat Helland explain what he conceptualises as SOA. He is saying what I have been thinking, but he us doing it with much more authority and much better analogies that I could ever muster.

Way to go Pat Helland.

Maybe the SOA acronym is recoverable after all?