Pat Helland - IT shops have evolved a lot like cities

Posted By: The Channel 9 Team | Apr 8th, 2004 @ 11:26 AM | 14,064 Views | 15 Comments
Pat Helland,is one of our favorite story tellers at Microsoft. In this video Pat talks how IT has evolved a lot like cities. 

Interesting?  Check out Pat's entire Metropolis webcast where he goes deep.
Media Downloads:
Rating:
1
0
#Apr 8th, 2004 @ 12:32 PM
CumpsD
CumpsD
Mine! Mine!
Very interesting, now we have to get to the same point city development is, with software, and then lead it. Easier said then done Wink
#Apr 8th, 2004 @ 2:21 PM
jj5
jj5
Yeah. We got goth served.
Heh, so that's what Pat looks like. This is fun. Smiley

John.
#Apr 8th, 2004 @ 3:46 PM
miseldine
miseldine
Embrace the Geek

Insightful. I've been looking into the Globus toolkit and the OGSA spec for a while now, and although Microsoft are a sponser of the technologies, they don't seem to be in anyway vocal about Grid computing benefits, unlike IBM for example. This talk highlights many of the benefits Grids hope to achieve...

I know Microsoft are pushing the service-oriented Business Framework, which deals with some grid-esque functionality, but is the Globus vision something Microsoft still subscribes to?

#Apr 8th, 2004 @ 4:05 PM
johnwe
johnwe
Great points, and I agree that interchangability needs to exist in common areas of infrastructure, such as security, Name Resolution, number crunching, but I feel there will always be value in adding the unique capabilities that may break the standard, but provide distinct value.
#Apr 8th, 2004 @ 7:22 PM
shain
shain

This is a quite interesting perspective to look at the present development and advancement in software with comparision to the development of civilization.  History always reminds us of what we should look at for and what's ahead. 


Even a computer scientist should know history, and reason to its parallels.

#Apr 8th, 2004 @ 9:08 PM
vanlandw
vanlandw
the video's on this site are really cool...i wish more bloggers out there would put stuff on their site like this...maybe in the future..gg guys
#Apr 9th, 2004 @ 1:20 PM
Karthik
Karthik
miseldine wrote:

I know Microsoft are pushing the service-oriented Business Framework...



Ah, the irony. That would ensure long term sustainability, yes. But is that where they *really* want to go?

I think not.

#Apr 9th, 2004 @ 2:51 PM
G
G
Gerard Marshall Vignes

Pat, that is an awesome post.

As Developers, we have been quitely neglecting this issue out of self-interest.

The day of reckoning is coming, and our profession will forever change.  I only hope that the change happens first in the USA, and that American developers lead the way.

Remember what happened to those poor people who got left behind in the technological revolution that actually began during the European Renaissance. They became colonies.

There is one issue I would like to raise: the growing shift from Applicative to Declarative programming.

As a business programmer, I would like to focus on turning Requirements (a declaration of what the users want) into a declarative programming language (a declaration of what the computer must do to satisfy the user).

I want business software (as with SQL) that allows me to specify the results I want. I want business software that then goes away and does it, reporting on any problems it encounters.

THere are an infinite number of ways to re-invent the wheel. I just need something that rolls properly.

Herein lies, I believe, the key to the problem of interchangeability.

Of course, I could just be drinking too much caffine and watching too much television. It wouldn't be the first time  Smiley

-G

www.gerardvignes.com

Microsoft Communities