After slightly more than six years Layer 7 and I have parted company. So that means you can finally hire me, like you’ve been wanting to all these years!
]]>My use of “failure” in this case should not be construed to convey any stigma, because distributed computing is inherently difficult, and the [booming voice]_Promise of Distributed Computing_[/booming voice] has been outlandishly overstated from Day 0.
There are approximately as many distributed computing frameworks as there are reasons for their failure. Many have been underspecified, and many more have been underimplemented.
It is my contention that SOA is the first distributed computing framework to attempt to comprehensively address all three problem areas of distributed systems:
In addition to this breadth of conceptual scope, there are many cultural ingredients baked into SOA that will help it achieve wider adoption than previous distributed computing frameworks.
I won’t even try to back up my assertions just yet, but hopefully I’ll be writing more on the subject soon.
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