vrijdag 20 februari 2009

RDBMS vs. key/value

Tony Bain over RDBMS vs key/value-bases. Goed stuk.

zondag 15 februari 2009

Wainewright over platforms

Interessant verhaal van Phil Wainewright.

Vooral: "I suspect the root of the problem in Sage’s case was an unthinking assumption that Aqualogic was such an established Web platform that basic security would just be built in as standard. This is typical of the blind-leading-the-blind nature of the on-premise software model, in which customers blithely believe that vendors have built everything they’ll need into the platform, while vendors naively assume that anything they’ve missed will be easily spotted and corrected by customers during the implementation process. It’s bad enough when it results in catastrophic roll-outs at just a single company, but when the application is being deployed as a service to multiple downstream customers, a far higher duty-of-care is required, because the risk exposure is massively amplified."