Moving to architectures like SOA that increase the number of overall “moving parts” or components in the system means that reliability is going down. It is simple math really – if you have 10 components each with a 0.99 reliability then the total reliability is 0.99^10 or 0.904 and that’s before we take into account messages traveling over the wire and the network’s reliability (or lack thereof).

You’ve probably read/heard that yesterday Google held a press event on making the ChromeOS the’ve been working on an open source project. Actually they’ve announced ChromeOS back in July, but now that the source is available it is making more waves. This is a very logical move for Google, and even though I think that they will need to enable some local/offline capabilities before it would be a

Yes, this is another WCF rant…

We were getting ready to launch an open-for-all version of our service, we were also adding more cores to the system, to make sure our computation engine will be able to handle higher request loads (We’re basically implementing the Gridable Service pattern -  if it is interesting, I can expand on that in another post). We tried a few load tests, which on first

When we added our iPhone application xsights-light to the appstore about a month ago we intended it as a demo application we can use to showcase potential clients what we can do (with the aim of providing a white-label service). We activated a few images (3 on the site and a few others) and forgot about it.

We were very surprised to find out that even though we didn’t publicized it anywhere or

Yesterday I gave a talk on SOA pattern on the European Virtual Alt.Net user group. You can find the recording of that talk here as well as download a pdf of the slides.

Before I’ll talk a little about the substance I want to say a few words about office-live meeting (the platform used for the presentation). To sum this in one word the experience was horrid. It took me more than 35 minutes just