Category: Information Management
July 10th, 2007
REST-style architecture in the real world
A couple of weeks ago, I presented REST to the IT staff in the London division of a major US investment bank. Out of something like 100 people, only a small number of people had ever heard of REST. Yet this bank had invested in a REST to SOAP bridge to facilitate delivering product and market information over the web. Surprisingly, many people are building REST applications in business and aren’t even aware of it.
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June 20th, 2007
Is Relational Relevant?
Last week, some friends of mine from Ingres, the early relational database management system, attended a retrospective on relational database systems held at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley with other database pioneers from Oracle, Informix, IBM and Sybase. I was an early employee at Ingres which was the second best selling relational database until it unwound itself and eventually got sold. Back in the 1980s when Ingres started, relational was one of the hot topics of computer science. Today the developments in the retrospective are treated with the same distance as World War II and viewed with the same level of relevance as assembler code despite their widespread use today.
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May 25th, 2007
REST Battles SOAP for the Future of Information Services
There has been some subterranean discussion in the content management standards arena about what is the best way to support the interoperability of content services with applications. Should vendors support content services through the myriad of web services support layers that have been developed over the last decade? Or should we take a leap into the future with the simple REST architecture used by Amazon, Yahoo, Google and dozens of other web properties? The answer can affect how applications, developers and even consumers view information services. I don’t think it is going to be as simple as let’s do both.
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