Is going native the answer to SOA performance?
While there are definite advantages in terms of standardization and flexibility offered by XML based SOA infrastructures, crucial enterprise concerns in terms of performance and scalability are often the bottleneck to adopting XML based standards.
How to overcome the performance challenge of XML and verbose languages?
Can going native (working with low level network protocols) to absorb these new challenges help? The answer appears to be an emphatic YES.. Read on..
Going native to lower level protocols to handle what would have conventionally been the forte of higher level technology communication protocols (e.g. XML based Web services standards work over and above SOAP, which is again a layer over and above basic HTTP or application level protocols), is emerging as a mainstream.
Some key trends in this direction are :
1. Hardware based SOA accelerators - As is evident from the solutions offered by Datapower (IBM , See link http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid26_gci1135215,00.html
2. SOA networks - like AON from CISCO (see http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/contnetw/index.html )
3.Optimized protocols at lower network layers with special performance acceleration (e.g. the Tempest Platform using Ricochet Protocol as part of Quicksilver project at Cornell, see http://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/quicksilver/ )
Comments
Thanks for the blog. I was aware of the Quicksilver Project.
Posted by: Gary E Smith | March 14, 2007 2:28 PM