Steve Bjorg is the co-founder and CTO at MindTouch and the mind behind MindTouch Deki, the first WOA wiki platform. His work experience includes compilers, virtual machines, distributed systems, behavioral type systems, process calculi, and game development. Prior to MindTouch, Steve worked at Microsoft doing product incubation in the Advanced Strategies team.
WOA, or "web-oriented architecture," has proven itself as a viable approach
to building large-scale, worldwide web services. This article introduces the
principles behind WOA, how it is applied, and why it should be used even
inside the enterprise.
What Is WOA and Why Should I Care?
Before diving into the meat of this article, let's quickly review where WOA
came from and why it has gained traction among many new technology companies.
WOA has been defined by Gartner as SOA + WWW + REST. In other words, it's a
soup of mostly unpronounceable acronyms.
SOA should be familiar to most readers. It was introduced in 2003 and has
been widely associated with SOAP and the WS-* stack, although it's not
directly related. SOA, or service-oriented architecture, is an approach to
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Steve Bjorg is the co-founder and CTO at MindTouch and the mind behind MindTouch Deki, the first WOA wiki platform. His work experience includes compilers, virtual machines, distributed systems, behavioral type systems, process calculi, and game development. Prior to MindTouch, Steve worked at Microsoft doing product incubation in the Advanced Strategies team.
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