Building Applications for SOA and the Cloud
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Michael Azoff - Published 12/06/2008
Up until now application development has not changed since the birth of computers – when an application is built the programmers quite naturally assume that it will run on a specific machine. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and beyond, such as cloud computing, change this assumption – no longer can the developer assume a single source for the usual background services offered by the OS. Rather, programmers must now consider a changing flux of application hosts, with implications on software reliabili…