SOA filling the Gaps

I recently read Steve Yegge 's very interesting post cited by  Rip's Rowan . According to Rip it is "The best article I've ever read about architecture and the management of IT".  It is a very interesting post which was intended to be internal memoranda and accidently was published externally. I read it in the right time: just after publishing in my blog a post titled:  Will Google Survive until 2021? Revisited - part 1  and before publishing part 2.  You can read it here . I recommend reading it from start to end although it is a long post.  As a former Amazon employee and current Google employee he discusses the limitations and strengths of the two companies (more criticism than praise) and compares them to Apple , Facebook and Microsoft .  He discusses both technological aspects, focusing on what he calls Internal SOA and  on Organizational Culture.   Few Notes The notes do not support or dispute Steve's views. They just s...

In a previous post titled Hyped Cloud Technologies Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) tied in the fourth place in a ReadWrite Cloud survey of Hyped Cloud Technologies. Yesterday, I read a Forrester Research Note about PaaS, which may explain why it is rated as one of the most Hyped Cloud Technologies.    Simply, PaaS is immature technology.  Immature technologies related to in the spotlight topic such as Cloud Computing , are natural hype candidates.     PaaS and IaaS PaaS and IaaS are related concepts: both provide technology for development and deployment of applications in the Cloud. IaaS solutions such as Amazon EC2 or Amazon S3 provide basic platform for Application Development and Application Deployment.  It is only infrastructure. Unlike IaaS, PaaS provides a complete Application Platform which includes Development Tools (e.g     Integrated Development Environment ), Runtime Environmen...