I was flabbergasted to discover that I was the only subscriber to
The Now Economy on
Bloglines.
If you’re interested in a weblog that can discuss
mesh networks in one post, and
pasture management soon thereafter,
and just generally cover the gambit of what decentralization and instant
(modulo latency, of course 8-) gratification might mean to business in
the coming years and decades, you should be subscribed.
Adam and
Rohit
are the brains behind
KnowNow and
mod-pubsub,
and are both now at
CommerceNet Labs.
Update; it seems Bloglines has a bad URI comparison
algorithm, since I heard from somebody else that they see 9
subscribers, yet I still only see 3. This jives with two other
things I’ve observed about the service; that it recommends feeds I’m
already subscribed to, and that it doesn’t permit publication of URIs
ending with “/” (which could very well explain all these problems, I
think). Bah!
According to Michael Curry,
Forrester has a
report on REST vs. SOAP
which concludes saying basically that SOAP is a better long-term bet.
First of all, the debate isn’t REST vs SOAP, it’s REST vs. SOA. SOAP can
be used in the context of many architectural styles, and the SOAP spec
itself says basically nothing about which should be used; though it does
have explicit support for RPC and REST (by virtue of some design decisions
made regarding the HTTP binding, thanks to yours truly). Also, Forrester’s
claim that REST proponents rag on SOAP is backwards; we like SOAP, mostly.
We just don’t like SOA.
Also, apparently the principle argument against REST is
that it lacks standards support. Seriously?! Ever heard
of URIs and
HTTP? You know,
two of the most wildly successful standards in the history of
distributed computing? How one can compare WS-* with 100s of millions
of deployed and currently-interoperable servers and clients, and then
conclude that the latter suffers from a lack of standards
support, boggles my mind.
Michael also adds his own critique;
Randy makes some good points on the standards issue that I failed to bring up. He doesn’t bring up the fact that REST breaks the MVC paradigm, however.
Who knew that MVC was a benchmark by which large scale distributed systems
are evaluated? Back to the drawing board for me! 8-)
Omri Gazitt has a
Web/REST gestalt moment
and doesn’t even realize it. In talking about how
WS-MetadataExchange
might integrate with
WS-Transfer, he writes;
In order to “dereference” the MetadataReference EPR, you may issue a “Get” message (which is defined in WS-MetadataExchange), but logically this is exactly the same operation as the WS-Transfer Get operation. Now it all starts to hang together…
Erm, yah, it does, doesn’t it? Of course, the Web has been getting
things to hang together in exactly that manner (modulo s/EPR/URI, s/Get/GET)
since day one.
Progress, in a regressive kinda way. I don’t know whether to jump for joy, or cry. 8-/