For a wonderfully concise and lucid synopsis on what you really need to be aiming for while devising an SOA, watch Jim Webber‘s InfoQ interview. He discusses the Agile-hugging benefits of an emergent service ecosystem, provides best practices around building for scalability, highlights what makes RPC (even if you pronounce it “doc/literate”) bad in terms [...]
Browsing Posts published in August, 2007
Simplify constructor protection in Ruby. Protect new in Ruby.
A little while ago, my ThoughtWorks colleague Neal Ford was discussing Polyglot Programming. He highlights a renewed interest in a diversity of programming languages, particularly those that display constructs that are dynamic, functional, or declarative. Those of us that have been around a while don’t actually think this is a new thing. I’ve learned over [...]
