intelliware.ca: custom business software.Always lead.(Untitled)- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Uh-oh, even Gates is saying PC "ecosystem" under oath. Better find a new metaphor. :-gtbhttp://radio.weblogs.com/0105165/2002/04/23.html#a106 (Untitled)- (Found July 2, 2008 ) I was asked about my thoughts on the performance of SOAP-based applications. My immediate reaction was "they'll be pigs". After thinking about it a bit longer, I realized that the correct answer is probably, "depends how you use it". In looking for real world evidence to support either view, I came across this article from this past winter: "You see, there's an evil little secret about Web services that most vendors don't talk about. Web services' protocols are very fat, and...http://radio.weblogs.com/0105165/2002/04/18.html#a94 (Untitled)- (Found July 2, 2008 ) An excellent technical brief on SOAP by Clay Shirky. These O'Reilly briefs are outstanding. They really get the root of the key practical technical issues. Just like their books.gtbhttp://radio.weblogs.com/0105165/2002/04/18.html#a93 (Untitled)- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Bell Mobility is hosting a Wireless Internet conference here in Toronto next week. A one day affair, the agenda looks pretty solid. gtbhttp://radio.weblogs.com/0105165/2002/04/18.html#a92 (Untitled)- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Yaaay open source: "Apache 2.0 Holds Its Own in Performance Tests", without any of these pesky security problems.bshttp://radio.weblogs.com/0105165/2002/04/18.html#a91 (Untitled)- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Probably the most promising aspect of the Sun-led alternative to Passport, the Liberty Alliance, is that it is based on a federation of trust, rather than one central repository. Distributed, rather than hierarchical. gtbhttp://radio.weblogs.com/0105165/2002/04/17.html#a90 (Untitled)- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Some interesting sidenotes to the cancellation of Hailstorm discussed yesterday. The number of users subscribed to Passport, Microsoft's single-signon solution at the core of .NET doubled from 7M to 14M between August of last year and February of this year. However, according this article, that number can be entirely attributed to consumers that are forced to use the service because of their need for other applications such as Hotmail and the Microsoft Developer...http://radio.weblogs.com/0105165/2002/04/17.html#a89 (Untitled)- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Here's a companion piece to the Bill Joy observations about Microsoft's problematic security "architecture" I posted yesterday. In this article, Scott Rosenburg points out; "The company boasts that it's making Herculean security efforts -- but throwing more people at software problems rarely solves them." gtbhttp://radio.weblogs.com/0105165/2002/04/16.html#a88 (Untitled)- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Here's an article detailing the problems with Hailstorm from a year ago. "If you dig through the mountains of buzzwords in Microsoft's HailStorm "white paper," you eventually discover that HailStorm is Microsoft's effort to make computing more convenient by allowing you to A) collect all your personal information in one format intelligible across many platforms and devices, and B) store all that information with -- who else -- Microsoft. For a fee, of course. " Looks like people...http://radio.weblogs.com/0105165/2002/04/16.html#a87 (Untitled)- (Found July 2, 2008 ) While it may be true that the SOAP protocol is "fat" and wasteful of bandwidth, that is probably not the key problem application developers will encounter with respect to performance. Network latency, tunneling through firewalls, moving from the public Internet through application servers and hosts via a SOAP messaging layer will all take time. If you expect an application to make too many of these calls too often, your application will be slow. If the granularity of these...http://radio.weblogs.com/0105165/2002/04/18.html#a95 |