Here's a quote "standard issues associated w/ a disitributed db". And "There is the push versus pull of data. Say you use push and..." and more stuff after that.

First, by "Distributed Database", the question could mean almost anything. However, they provide the specific example of Oracle's Multi-Master Replication. That …

REST is cool because there's less protocol there -- little more than HTTP and some kind of representation for objects (XML, JSON or whatever.) It seems to me that REST with JSON is a very lightweight approach to implementing web services. Doing this in Python further trims down the technology stack …

I'm not a fan of XML as the one true language. I've griped before about the attractive nuisance of XML.

Recently, I saw Sean McGrath's New Realities , which lead me to Project Zero , a RESTful/JSONic SOA architecture. Their blog includes postings like A run-time for "the New Reality .

I …

I find the value proposition for a Service Oriented Architecture to be agility and simplicity.

See Linthicum's Real World SOA blog postings, specifically "Core Value of an SOA... " Here's the interesting quote: "this does not mean that reuse is not a core value of SOA, but its value is much …

My experience is that an SOA has the potential to be cheaper and simpler. However, cheaper and simpler may not be the only value proposition.

Kontrawize says: "there is only something to gain with SOA for the parts of your software that genuinely have re-usable functionality, and are expected to …

TC writes:

I’m sitting in the corner, considering SOA from various perspectives:

• What sized company?
• When you sell/license the tech, what are you actually trying to sell? The initial implementation, individual services, ???
• Chicken vs. egg – implement first or align the culture first?

What is our company's approach?

Has …

See The hubris of calendrical calculations. And Calendrical Calculations, Part 2.

"Here are the exact words from the client when I suggested using the "official calendar": I’m aware of other systems having tables for Holidays but I don’t know that we can piggy back off any of them …