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Nati Shalom's Blog While I think that many technical folks are in violent agreement that Web Services and SOA are not necessarily the same thing, the question: what is the alternative approach? remains unanswered. Geva Perry covered the topic of  Scalable SOA in one of his recent blogs. Geva quotes upcoming SOA World 2008 East keynote speaker Dave Linthicum ("SOA for the real world"): "Making solutions scale is nothing new. However, the SOA technology and approaches recently employed are largely untested with higher application and information and service management traffic loads. SOA implementers were happy to get their solutions up-and-running, however in many cases scalability is simply not a consideration within the SOA, nor was load testing, or other performance fundamentals. We are seeing the results of this neglect now that SOA problem domains are exceeding th... (more)

Scalable Pricing in a Scalable World

Nati Shalom's GigaSpaces Blog In most discussions about scalability, we often approach the topic as a pure technical/architecture challenge, and ignore cost issues. The problem is that when we truly scale our application, and want to benefit from economies of scale, we're going to end up with scale limitations, not because of technical issues, but because of the pricing and licensing models. In most discussions about scalability, we often approach the topic as a pure technical/architecture challenge, and ignore cost issues. The problem is that when we truly scale our application, a... (more)