Posts with keyword: services

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When Services Die

Mon Dec 10 10:00:00 2012

What happens when your favorite service dies? Will your data live on? Not if you're dependent on cloud-based services you don't control.
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Services in the Personal Cloud Operating System

Mon Aug 6 15:05:00 2012

The personal cloud operating system will need a set of consistent services. This post begins to flesh out some of the details behind the roadmap I published last week.
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Fuzzy Boundaries

Mon Apr 17 14:49:00 2006

The January 2005 issue of ACM Queue contains and article by Roger Sessions called Fuzzy Boundaries that does a good job of discussing the differences between objects, components, and services and when to use each. This is a difference that's hard for students to grasp at first and I suspect many a veteran programmer would have a tough time explaining it, even though they understand it intuitively. To start with, we have to acknowledge that each of these has the same abstract purpose: stick some code behind a well-defined API and are designed to respond to requests from a
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