ActiveGrid CEO Peter Yared is back with his thoughts on the advantages of lightweight architecture for SOA. Peter began this series with "Google, Amazon, and Yahoo! point enterprise developers towards "lightweight" architecture".
Enterprise SOA Apps Take Off on Lightweight
Architecture
At the last InfoWorld SOA Executive Forum, I asked the
audience for a show of hands on the following question: "Who
thinks it's easier to build an app that communicates to a web
service than it is to write an app that communicates to a
database?" Of this very sophisticated audience of senior IT
architects and managers only two people raised their hands.
After having spent countless amounts of time …
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