Interview: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos | GigaOM 06/17/2008
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GigaOM Interview: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos – GigaOM
Nick Carr contends that for Amazon, running a cloud computing service is core to its business in a way that it isn’t for, say, IBM, Sun, or HP. In a brief but illuminating video interview with Om Malik, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos underscores this point in describing the origins of Amazon Web Services. “Four years ago is when it started,” he says, “and we had enough complexity inside Amazon that we were finding we were spending too much time on fine-grained coordination between our network engineering groups and our applications programming groups. Basically what we decided to do is build a [set of APIs] between those two layers so that you could just do coarse-grained coordination between those two groups. Amazon is, you know, just a web-scale application.”
Divorcing SOA and Web services 07/10/2007
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Divorcing SOA and Web services
An interesting take on defining and clarifying the related SOA and Web Services concepts:
”.. the confusion rests upon certain subtleties that are not immediately obvious upon cursory inspection. As a result, it is not sufficient to simply yell definitions from treetops: “SOA is an approach to organizing IT resources to better meet the changing needs of the business!” “Web services are standards-based, contracted interfaces to software functionality and data!” After all, if it were simply about the respective definitions of the terms, the confusion would be long gone. So, why is this fundamental misperception still with us today? “
For a good overview of SOA, here is a link to our newsletter article in the September 2006 i3 Business Solutions Insight : SOA: Getting Ahead of the Wave
ACM Queue | Beyond Relational … 05/24/2005
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Read it allllll…
ACM Queue | Beyond Relational Databases | There is more to data access than SQL.: “History of Relational Databases
The number and variety of computing devices in the environment are increasing rapidly. Real computers are no longer tethered to desktops or locked in server rooms. PDAs, highly mobile tablet and laptop devices, palmtop computers, and mobile telephony handsets now offer powerful platforms for the delivery of new applications and services. These devices are, however, only the tip of the iceberg. Hidden from sight are the many computing and network elements required to support the infrastructure that makes ubiquitous computing possible.”
