Enabling application agility: software as a service, cloud computing and dynamic languages

The good news is that application developers are on the verge of being liberated from the tyranny of middleware. Next Generation IT will leverage a new computing platform which makes the development and deliver of applications significantly easier than it is today. This new platform consists of Cloud Computing, Software As A Service and Dynamic Languages. Cloud Computing [1] offers mainframe or better infrastructure through a small set of services delivered globally over the Internet

Next generation IT - Computing in the cloud life after jurassic OO middleware

It is painfully clear that current middleware cannot provide agility nor provide cost effective scalable commodity infrastructure. Current IT applications programming technology is too complex and too inefficient to leverage next generation infrastructures On top of this we are facing an acute shortage of skilled application developers. Hence we need to consider simpler alternative solutions, of which cloud computing and functional Infrastructure enabled Domain Oriented Programming seem to be the most promising on the horizon. Simple services enable agility and leverage scaleable commodity technology. Functional Services enable rapid application development and enable the service infrastructure to handle concurrency. Domain Oriented Programming enables domain specific service development on top of which Business Programming empowers business teams with embedded developers to deliver applications quickly

My Rules for Success

Success means something different to everyone. It can mean wealth, power, happiness, or a hundred other things. There are all kinds of success and all kinds of ways to achieve it. I know bus drivers who are as successful as bankers; I know anonymous computer programmers who are now more successful than some of the biggest sports celebrities. Success can take many forms, but the ingredients for success are basically the sam