James Urquhart
SOASTA, Inc.
Alameda, CA, United States
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How to bridge the Conway’s Law communication problems in your digital business
How to bridge the Conway’s Law communication problems in your digital business One of the most surprising lessons I’ve learned since joining SOASTA is that the data analytics world is still learning some difficult lessons – the same difficult lessons that distributed systems development learned a decade ago. One of the most interesting of these is the effects of Conway’s Law on the way data… → Read More
The Enterprise Architect as Enterprise Ecologist
The days of diagrams showing exactly how everyone (and everything) should work together and dictating how information should flow within an organization are, in a real sense, over. → Read More
Why user experience and ecosystem will rule the cloud
It’s easy enough to start offering a cloud platform, but doing so successfully is a lot more difficult. James Urquhart explains how Amazon Web Services, Cloud Foundry and others are capitalizing on great user experiences and great ecosystems. → Read More
Enough PaaS vs. IaaS: The cloud is really about Services as a Platform
Platform as a service has been hailed as the next frontier in cloud computing, but some experts are saying it’s more a feature than a market. James Urquhart says PaaS versus IaaS is a moot debate, because “Services as a platform” is the real cloud model. → Read More
Enough PaaS vs. IaaS: The cloud is really about Services as a Platform
Platform as a service has been hailed as the next frontier in cloud computing, but some experts are saying it’s more a feature than a market. James Urquhart says PaaS versus IaaS is a moot debate, because “Services as a platform” is the real cloud model. → Read More
Does OpenStack understand the value of ecosystems?
Contributor James Urquhart takes issue with recent calls for OpenStack to build its own platform as a service. Citing the commercial success of VMware and Amazon Web Services, he claims the real benefit of any platform is its community. → Read More
Why the cloud has me fearing Wall-E more than Skynet
Everybody who has watched The Terminator knows about Skynet, the computing system that becomes self-aware and decides to destroy humanity. But I look at cloud computing and automated systems and I fear something much more depressing: the total leisure paradise of the movie Wall-E. → Read More