Presentation: "A couple of ways to skin an Internet-scale cat"
Time: Thursday 17:15 - 18:15
Location: City
The Web is alive with furious debate on the future of integration. With the former new kid on the block - Web Services - being forced to contend with the jihadist fury of the upstart REST-based approach.
This talk will explore the fundamental REST concepts and show how they can be used to created robust integration solutions - with all those -ilities that we love, but without all the complex middleware.
We'll explore how RESTful solutions can be applied to enterprise domains used by real developers writing with those "boring" statically typed languages, rather than just the Ruby fanboys (though fanboys will also be well catered for). In a shocking conclusion we'll also see that REST done right and SOA done well are actually rather similar beasts...