Evolved Technologist ® -

Dan Woods strikes again in his JargonSpy column this week by revealing what he calls the "Dirty Little Secret" of SOA: the operational complexity IT is faced with as it begins to learn how to "run a world in which the performance characteristics of a collection of services determines the reliability and scalability of an entire IT infrastructure."

Woods says that IT is normally used to running applications, not breaking them into individual parts that can be reassembled. He concludes the article by saying "IT departments going down this road should start building operational skills to manage this new world in order to avoid a series of rather predictable train wrecks."