David Hill's WebLogIblogyoublogweblogEnterprise Grade vs Web Grade- April 10, 2006 The SPARK discussions continue. Jeff Schneider posted recently (here and here) on the issues we discussed at SPARK. He follows on from a post by Dare Obasanjo who argues that Enterprise Architects often propose overly complex solutions to relatively simple problems, and that it is possible to create robust global-scale IT systems using the Web 2.0 platform with RSS and RESTful web services without incurring the pain and expense of an all out enterprise architecture based on...http://blogs.msdn.com/dphill/archive/2006/04/10/572579.aspx SPARK!- April 5, 2006 The weekend before last (the weekend before Mix06) I attended the Microsoft SPARK conference at the Venetian in Las Vegas. SPARK was billed as chance to explore and discuss the issues in the evolving architectural landscapes of Web 2.0, SOA and Software as a Service (SaaS). The tag line behind SPARK was that it was as much about understanding the questions as the answers. And so it was too Im not sure we got too many definitive answers but we sure did raise a fair number of important...http://blogs.msdn.com/dphill/archive/2006/04/05/569225.aspx |