Resource Oriented Computing
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Resource Oriented Computing: What happens to the economics of solutions when you apply the concepts behind the Web inside software?
In software we build solutions and at some point we reach a glass ceiling - the point at which its cheaper to throw it away and start again than to try to push forward.
The Web is different.
We've never had to throw the Web away - it just seems to evolve. The Web demonstrates a different economic model, one in which the cost of change is less than value added.
In this talk Peter Rodgers will introduce the core concepts of Resource Oriented Computing. He will show how the basic ideas of the Web (REST) can be generalized and applied inside software. He will demonstrate a new and practical way of thinking about software that allows us to step up, out of the confines of programming languages, to a world of resources and evolvable resource composition.
Along the way, it will be shown how radically decoupling software architecture, leads to significant economic returns both in the development/maintenance phases and the operational engineering, with dramatic breakthroughs in performance and scalability of complex systems.
Bio
Peter Rodgers is the architect of NetKernel and the father of Resource Oriented Computing.
Peter started his research into ROC at Hewlett Packard Labs. When trying to build very large scale software solutions, he discovered that he could afford to "build-one" but the long-tail cost of software dwarves the headline costs.
For more info on NetKernel and Resource Oriented Computing, see:
Resource Oriented Computing