Last week I was in L.A. talking about SOA on an expert panel at SOCA 2007. It was an honor to be on the panel. I really enjoyed Prof. Wei-Tek Tsai's discussion about how the process for developing SOA has not yet being completely figured out yet. He claims there was a big shift in methodologies and processes when we went to OO and that a similar shift is needed in SOA. I mentioned some of my experience in this shift in a previous blog called Trusted Services Network. I hope to catch up with Prof. Tsai regarding this in the future.
Today I've just finished my presentation on OSGi at Burton Group's Catalyst conference in San Francisco. My presentation was well received. I'll blog on OSGi soon. I will say that it was amazing how complimentary the presentations in my session were. It was almost as if we had rehearsed the message but we had not.
One of the cool presentations was Jeff Barr's from Amazon regarding their web services. His discussion on Amazon's approach to web-Scale Computing really was an eye opener. I'm embarrassed I didn't know about this before. I knew that Amazon was providing Web service APIs for developers but I had no idea that they had a complete infrastructure for organizations to utilize. Hardware and infrastructure as a service. This is not unlike what some of the large telecommunications companies are trying to do - i.e. provide their infrastructure for people to deploy their services. Amazon is providing that and more - the ability to host your entire IT on their "network".
More on Catalyst later.
BTW I do love San Francisco. What a beautiful town. Not perfect but really beautiful.
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