Open Services - The Only New Idea

Gone are the days that the DEC computer in the sales department won’t talk to the IBM in finance. Computers can talk to each other. But pulling an RSS feed into a system on a different server can still take time (and cost money).

What if applications talked to each other so easily, that you could expand your software by plugging on new pieces? Modern software design takes the first two foundations of scalability (open communication, robust expansion) and combines them.

The revolution in enterprise software has come from expanding complex systems, by developing task-specific pieces, which communicate easily. To grow, you develop applications to perform a particular service, or you buy them, and then someone plugs them in and they work.

Written by Keith Mitchell, Senior Developer at NSKinc