Rails Takes on the Enterprise with SOA - Joe O'Brien

Kevin — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 03:59:00 -0600

Have you read any books on Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). Yeah? Well forget everything…
Some applications really need to be big.
Just because rails allows you to do things ten times faster doesn’t mean you need to do ten times more. Do the important things better.
SOA is not a new idea, but our era of developers may have lost the art of making applications that communicate with each other.
SOA is about boundaries – discovering the logical separations between various parts of the business.
Must have well-defined interfaces.
XML is not the root of all evil.
Do not expose your privates (in reference to xml dtd’s of course)
Asyncronous messaging is certainly an option when trying to improve the user experience.

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