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The 2009 “SOA is Dead” meme may have turned out to be a tempest in a teapot, but there’s no question that interest in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) waned in the

Yesterday, in a moment of weakness, I managed to sit through most of a Gartner Webinar on Cloud brokerages (I know, what was I thinking?) We’re researching cloud brokerages for

You may have heard of the CAP theorem: no distributed computing system can offer partition tolerance, basic availability, and immediate consistency all at once. You can have any two of

If you were to list the top half dozen overhyped, buzzy topics in IT these days, I’m sure Hadoop would make the list. Hadoop is an open source framework for

Remember Calvinball? From the Calvin & Hobbes comic strip, the most important rule of Calvinball is that anybody can make up new rules for Calvinball. As a result, it’s never

Writing code is easy. Getting it distributed out to the appropriate end users or servers can be a pain in the you-know-what. This is one of those places where tooling

You don’t need me to tell you that Cloud Computing is all the rage in IT shops around the world. And no wonder–the prospect of lowering costs, pay-as-you-go-pricing, and unlimited

In my last blog post, I made the presumably controversial claim that Representational State Transfer (REST) wasn’t about building APIs. Rather, REST is an architectural style for building distributed hypermedia

In the years following Roy Fielding’s seminal doctoral dissertation, it appeared that Representational State Transfer (REST) was the Next Big Thing in the world of enterprise IT. REST was the