soa

A very insightful and fun presentation that is not boring, from people who really get it:
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/soa-without-esb

Awesome job! We admire these guys for a reason, indeed.

Web 1.0: Global reach to content publishing.
Web 2.0: Web becomes a two-way publishing avenue: readers contribute content and play central role.
Web 3.0: Let's try make sense of the enormous content published. Smart aggregation becomes key.

It looks like the reality in which content aggregation plays equally important role, compared to publishing, is arriving quietly but steadily:

Image courtesy of Amazon Web Services Blog

P.S. Thanks to Doug for pointing to the blog post.

SOA is probably the most overused/abused buzzword. I would say even more so than AJAX - which is scary, really. It's also funny how "SOA experts" can make the subject even blurrier.

That was the subject of the conversation between Doug and I, recently that I am quoting below. We were discussing a recent SOA article. Nothing too serious, just fun.

irakli: Got a minute?
dharris: sure
irakli: Trying to catch a blasphemy in this: http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?l=ChurchandState