SOA performance shouldn’t sentence you to re-living “Groundhog Day”
Friday, October 10th, 2008
After all the features are checked off on the desired list…after all the internal discussion and debate…after all the soul-searching about whether particular SOA technology is the right fit for a specific application or business, what matters most?
And what’s the word SOA software vendors run fastest from?
It’s the “P-word:” performance.
Performance is the single most important long-term factor in what it’s like to live with a particular SOA environment. It’s what makes arriving at the office each morning a pleasure or just another performance-hell version of the movie Goundhog Day.
So, go ahead and ask your vendor for performance specs you can use to avoid repeating yourself…repeating yourself…repeating yourself. You’ll get one of two responses. One: “It depends.” Two: more information than any human can digest…the most complicated set of SOA statistics on the planet.
Beware the head-fake in the voluminous data. Because vendors’ SOA stacks (I’m thinking IBM, Oracle and SAP) are so freakin’ big, they themselves have challenges figuring out the performance implications of any particular SOA application. So, they might not know. In that case, it’s better to obfuscate than admit it.
We believe — and have been preaching — SOA simplicity for nearly nine months. In that spirit, I offer a PDF attached to this post detailing ActiveVOS performance in terms anyone can understand. This PDF is just a few pages long.
And while it also hedges with an “it depends,” you’ll know in 20 minutes how scalable SOA applications built with a visual orchestration system can be.
How scalable ActiveVOS apps are…how scalable ActiveVOS apps are…how scalable ActiveVOS apps are.
