Next generation IT - Computing in the cloud life after jurassic OO middleware

It is painfully clear that current middleware cannot provide agility nor provide cost effective scalable commodity infrastructure. Current IT applications programming technology is too complex and too inefficient to leverage next generation infrastructures On top of this we are facing an acute shortage of skilled application developers. Hence we need to consider simpler alternative solutions, of which cloud computing and functional Infrastructure enabled Domain Oriented Programming seem to be the most promising on the horizon. Simple services enable agility and leverage scaleable commodity technology. Functional Services enable rapid application development and enable the service infrastructure to handle concurrency. Domain Oriented Programming enables domain specific service development on top of which Business Programming empowers business teams with embedded developers to deliver applications quickly

My Rules for Success

Success means something different to everyone. It can mean wealth, power, happiness, or a hundred other things. There are all kinds of success and all kinds of ways to achieve it. I know bus drivers who are as successful as bankers; I know anonymous computer programmers who are now more successful than some of the biggest sports celebrities. Success can take many forms, but the ingredients for success are basically the sam

Acoustic and optical observations of methane gas seeps in the Gulf of Mexico

In 2011 and 2012, measurements of acoustic backscatter from natural methane seeps were made in the northern Gulf of Mexico in water depths between 1000-2000 m. The measurementswere made using a calibrated 18 kHz echo sounder with an 11 degree beamwidth in order to estimate the depth-dependent target strength (TS). The TS data indicate a wide variation in the rate of gas seepage from the seafloor. Several of these seeps were revisited with a remotely operated vehicle in order to optically assess the bubble size distribution and to estimate the rate at which gas bubbles were exiting the seafloor. The optical data show bubble sizes between 1-10 mm radius, and similar rates of gas seepage ranging from a few bubbles per second to several tens of bubbles per second. Together, these data help to suggest the requirements for acoustically estimating gas flux from the seafloor over large regions

Enabling application agility: software as a service, cloud computing and dynamic languages

The good news is that application developers are on the verge of being liberated from the tyranny of middleware. Next Generation IT will leverage a new computing platform which makes the development and deliver of applications significantly easier than it is today. This new platform consists of Cloud Computing, Software As A Service and Dynamic Languages. Cloud Computing [1] offers mainframe or better infrastructure through a small set of services delivered globally over the Internet