Month: December 2013

Defining the Cloud

A cloud must be built on pooled, virtual infrastructure. This includes not only the CPU and memory resources but also the storage and networking and associated services. The cloud should provide application mobility between clouds, allowing the consumer to easily enter the cloud and exit the cloud with existing workloads. The use of existing consumer tools for […]

The Costs of Versioning an API

http://www.infoq.com/news/2013/12/api-versioning Contract versioning and API/Service versioning has always been a consideration for SOA based systems. Whether because of the impact it has on composability, or client-service governance, it is still something of an art rather than a science. There are many examples of groups giving the benefit of their experiences (e.g., around REST is extremely popular). However, recently Jean-Jacques Dubray […]