Frank Carver’s Punch Barrel

Another interesting-looking Qcon presentation for the “to watch” queue. I’m getting a bit bored with the X eye for the Y guy title meme, though.

InfoQ: REST Eye for the SOA Guy

A relatively simple, but still interesting, article about the issues faced by distributed architectures .

InfoQ: Opinion: Multiple Processor Computing Challenges go Beyond Purely Technical Issues

One of the key tenets of the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) approach to software system design is the idea of loose coupling. In some cases it is pragmatically obvious whether one service is loosely or tightly coupled to another, but in the general case it can be tricky to determine. With that in mind InfoQ have produced an article on the topic.

InfoQ: Loose Coupling in SOA Defined

It seems as if the term SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) has become confused with the implementation technology (often WS-* web services). Some pundits are now trying to create a new term “WOA” (Web-Oriented Architecture) to describe a service-oriented approach using native web technologies such as HTTP, URLs and REST.

ZapThink have taken a look at these terms and their implications: WOA is Me - Another Acronym? WOA and SOA