Well ok then, this sounds just a tad bit more like marketing or how you actually make money doing this stuff? Goodness knows I need lessons in that.
A knowledgeable friend tells me that SOA is fast dying.. great, we are just getting into SOA for a client, but.. anyway.. he says the near future is all about the Cloud. So, here I am.
Rags, the speaker (really) is saying- Cloud computing is replacing SOA and web services. “Cloud computing- everyone says they are doing it, but are not sure what it is and they are in fact lying.”
First up: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud.
Ok, this wasn’t actually a demo of Amazon, but actually the amazon guy’s little traffic map application and I had no idea that going to one site, grabbing images (maps in this case) taking a snapshot and storing them locally and maybe doing a little manipulation. So, everything I do is now categorized as CLOUD Computing. I declare JPI experts on cloud computing and we will be talking at future conferences.
Sales Force guy is reinforcing this impression- grabbing sales data, crunching it, producing a map. That’s cloud computing.
FACT: I do not think they are right. But they are interesting.
The Enterprise Integration Patterns guy is talking: he’s doing a servlet for us. Oh, he writes the little app and puts it INTO the cloud. The cloud part is the ASP where you can put your app out there. Well, that’s pretty cool.
The Intuit presentation was much better- a little applet on the cloud that goes out and grabs client data from various sources to build them a billing record. That’s very useful and made much more sense. Reach out, grab a few fields here, a few fields there, and some other fields over here, pop into a nice AJAX front end and voila, a great little app.
The Microsoft guy is up next and his prime number checker app just died a horrible death. He blamed JSP and we moved on. Poor MS guy.
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