Fallacies of Distributed Computing
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 20th Aug, 2007
I came across a Wikipedia page on the Fallacies of Distributed Computing. Read these and tell me if they ring any bells:
The network is reliable.
Latency is zero.
Bandwidth is infinite.
The network is secure.
Topology doesn’t change.
There is one administrator.
Transport cost is zero.
The network is homogeneous.
Great aren’t they? If you’ve worked in IT for any measuable amount of [...]
Inside Myspace
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 25th Jan, 2007
Here’s an excellent article called Inside Myspace by David F. Carr. It traces the steps MySpace had to go through as they grew from a small website to a social network with technology that needs to handle almost 40 billion page requests a month. The article talks about the architectural decisions that were taken as [...]
So .. what is a service?
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 25th Sep, 2003
Clemens has some excellent thoughts on what Services mean in a Service Oriented World …
If you are a developer and don’t live in the Netherlands (where SOA stands, well known, for “Sexueel Overdraagbare Aandoeningen” = “Sexually transmitted diseases”), you may have heard by now that SOA stands for “service oriented architectures”. In this article I [...]
